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HEALING 
YOURSELF 



BY 
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON 

AUTHOR OF "THE; GREAT WITHIN," "POISE AND POWER," "MAS- 
TERY OF SELF," "YOUR FORCES AND HOW TO USE THEM," 
"HOW TO STAY WELL," "THE IDEAL MADE REAL," "THE 
PATHWAY OF ROSES," "jUST BE GLAD," ETC., ETC. 



NEW YORK 

THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 



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Copyright 1918 
By 

Christian D. Larson 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. Full Supply of Vital Energy 1 

II. The Super-Physical Breath 8 

III. Psychological Equilibrium 17 

IV. Nourishing the Body 24 

V. Nourishing the Mind 31 

VI. The Will to be Well 39 

VII. Interior Relaxation 46 

VIII. Imagine Yourself Well 53 

IX. The Real Living of Life 60 

X. The Right Use of Body, Mind and Soul 66 

XI. The Finer Curative Forces 81 

XII. Living in the Absolute 95 



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INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 

There are many states and conditions of mind, 
and many stages in human development. Also, 
there are many special personal needs. There- 
fore, it is necessary to have many methods of 
healing and many ways to open the doors to 
personal emancipation and well being. 

Upon the following pages many methods are 
presented, each one of which has proven its own 
efficacy and power in no uncertain manner; in- 
deed, each one of these methods has helped its 
thousands and its tens of thousands, and will 
continue to do so. 

The reader is advised, therefore, to study each 
chapter carefully so as to become thoroughly 
familiar with the place, the possibility and the 
application of each method, and selecting, for 
the present, those methods that make the deep- 
est and most positive appeal. 

Later, when needs arise for healing or phys- 
ical and personal upbuilding, the best methods 
for the occasion will readily suggest themselves; 



vi INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 

and definite results may be secured in the least 
time with the least effort. 

The larger purpose should be, however, to 
gain that wider consciousness through which we 
may combine, harmoniously, all worthy methods 
— the psychological, the metaphysical and the 
spiritual — causing all good things to work to- 
gether for greater and greater good. 



HEALING YOURSELF 

CHAPTER I 

FULL SUPPLY OF VITAL ENERGY 

The Great Law. — It is absolutely impossible 
for any form of disease, physical or mental, or- 
ganic or functional, to enter the human system 
so long as that system is abudantly supplied with 
vital energy. And it is absolutely impossible for 
any form of disease to remain in the human sys- 
tem after a full supply of vital energy has been 
provided for every part of that system. 

The First Essential. — Recognizing the valid- 
ity and the certainty of the law just presented, 
we realize that the first essential in the attain- 
ment of health, in the regaining of health, or in 
the maintenance of health, must necessarily be 
to supply the human system with all the vital 
energy that mind and body can appropriate and 
employ. In brief, if we have good health, and 
wish to continue in good health, we must take 
immediate steps to keep the system brim full of 
vital energy under every circumstance; or, if we 

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2 HEALING YOURSELF 

wish to regain health, we must proceed to re- 
charge and revitalize the entire system until the 
full supply of energy has been secured. 

How to Proceed. — Our purpose must be, to so 
live, think and act that all waste of vital energy 
may be prevented absolutely; and also, to adopt 
such methods as may prove directly conducive to 
the increase of vital energy; that is, we must 
learn to retain what energy we have, and learn 
to produce more and more as growth and ad- 
vancement may demand. 

Practical Methods. — The first and simplest 
rule to observe is that of moderation in all things. 
Act only in conformity with present capacity; 
and aim to increase your capacity before you in- 
crease your activity. Believe that you can do as 
much as you like; then do only as much as you 
know you have the available energy to do at 
present. Take good care of the energy you have. 
Permit no waste; but do not permit the least to 
lie dormant. Use all the energy you have every 
day. Live and work to full capacity. But do 
not live and work beyond your present capacity. 
First, increase your capacity ; and know that you 
can. 

Revitalization. — When all the energy in the 
system has been used for the day, in wholesome 
living and constructive work, proper methods 
must be taken to revitalize and recharge the sys- 



FULL SUPPLY OF VITAL ENERGY 3 

tern. And this is accomplished in the natural 
way, through change of activity, recreation and 
sleep. Should you feel the energy of the system 
running low, the simplest and quickest way to 
recuperate is to go and do something else, or to 
turn thought and attention into some other 
channel. In brief, permit the muscles and the 
faculties you have been using to relax, and call 
into action muscles and faculties that have not 
been used for a time. The practice of turning 
thought and attention into other channels for 
thirty minutes several times every day is one of 
the best methods known for recharging the sys- 
tem with energy, and thus keeping mind and 
body fully supplied at all times. 

Source of Energy. — The real source of vital 
energy is found in the subconscious mind; and 
we enter the subconscious whenever we go to 
sleep, largely for the purpose of gaining a new 
supply of life, force and energy. It is highly 
important, therefore, to go to sleep with the ex- 
pectation of gaining a larger supply of energy 
than we ever possessed before, because it is al- 
ways the law everywhere that the more we ex- 
pect the more we receive. However, we must 
never permit anxiety to accompany our expecta- 
tions ; we must, in all things, be calm and serene, 
and make it our purpose to live and act in the 
full faith that all our expectations will be real- 



4 HEALING YOURSELF 

ized. The fact is, that there is more power in 
a calm, serene faith than in anything else in the 
world. 

How to Live. — In order that the system may 
be full of life and energy at all times, live the 
serene life, but turn on the full current. Give 
full, harmonious and constructive expression to 
all the power there is in you, but see that every 
action is calm, orderly and in perfect poise. Live 
a large life and a powerful life, but invariably 
combine the expression of power with a deep 
feeling of peace. Try to feel serene and strong 
at the same time, and at all times. This is most 
important if you would have an abundance of 
energy, and retain it all, with full force, in your 
own system. And you will find that this simple 
practice of trying to feel serene and strong at the 
same time will work wonders for you. 

How to Work. — Under every circumstance, 
work in poise. Work with all the energy you 
have, but apply that energy in poise; and never 
permit yourself to violate this rule. Avoid 
nervous rush, regardless of conditions or de- 
mands; and also avoid the habit of doing less 
than you can do; for remember that we always 
lose what energy we do not use. Use all the 
energy you have; use it constructively; use it in 
poise; and use it in the full conviction that you 
will immediately receive more. Again, we should 



FULL SUPPLY OF VITAL ENERGY 5 

consider the great law of expectation. Expect 
more ; expect much ; expect everything you want ; 
then live in the absolute faith that all your ex- 
pectations will be realized. 

Very Important. — All waste of energy must 
be prevented if we wish to have continuous and 
perfect health. And, therefore, everything must 
be avoided that may tend to produce such waste, 
be the action physical or mental. We must not 
only avoid the misuse of the body, but also the 
misuse of the mind. Such states therefore as 
anger, fear or worry, or similar states of mind 
must never be tolerated for a single moment. 
The fact is, that one hour of severe mental de- 
pression may lower your vital energy down to a 
point where you have less than one-fourth as 
much as you had before. If one hour of such a 
state of mind can destroy more than three- 
fourths of your energy, we have something here 
that must not be ignored for a moment. And 
it is too true that mental depression, or similar 
states, will have this very effect. We must there- 
fore eliminate such states absolutely, and keep 
the mind in a clean, lofty, harmonious condition 
at all times. Remember this: Do nothing to 
lower your vitality and you will always be well. 

Special Exercise. — We find in every human 
system a tendency to lose energy. In fact, most 
people are losing vital energy, unconsciously, 



6 HEALING YOURSELF 

most of the time. But this loss we must pre- 
vent; and we can. We can learn to hold, in our 
own system, all the energy we generate ; and this 
may be accomplished in a very short time through 
the following exercise: 

Take a few moments several times every day, 
and turn attention upon the energy that fills your 
physical and mental system. Then try to feel 
that you are holding all of this energy in your 
own system through the power of your mind. 
In fact, try to take conscious hold of this energy 
and keep it all in yourself. In a moment, you 
will feel more and more energy accumulating in 
every part of your being until you actually feel 
as if you were recharged. And you are. You 
have, for the time being, prevented all loss; and 
you are beginning to realize what a power you 
would become if you could always retain all the 
energy you generate. Repeat the exercise sev- 
eral times every day until it becomes second na- 
ture for your mind to hold within your own sys- 
tem all the energy you generate. Thus you pre- 
vent all loss permanently, and you will feel far 
stronger, both in mind and body, than ever 
before. 

Full Supply. — Realizing the fact that the sub- 
conscious mind is the real source of energy, and 
that the subconscious will invariably respond to 
our conscious directions, we should make it a 



FULL SUPPLY OF VITAL ENERGY 7 

point to direct the subconscious every day to 
keep the system, physical and mental, absolutely 
full of vital energy every moment. This may 
be accomplished by turning attention upon the 
subconscious at frequent intervals, and actually 
declaring to the subconscious that this full supply 
be maintained. Results will positively follow. 

Increase of Energy. — The permanent increase 
of vital energy may be secured by directing the 
subconscious to express, in mind and body, a 
larger supply. The subconscious can. The 
amount of latent energy in the great within is 
limitless; and, therefore, we may secure more 
and more as we desire. Turn the positive will 
upon the subconscious, and will to arouse more 
and more vital energy from within. Proceed 
calmly, and with determination ; and fully expect 
to receive the increase that you have in mind. 

The Aim in View. — We know the great law, 
that no ailment whatever can enter the human 
system, so long as that system is brim full of 
vital energy. Our aim in view therefore must 
be to possess, at all times, this full and abundant 
supply. And as we learn this great art, we shall 
always be well; we shall always be strong; we 
shall live a long, active life, and enjoy every 
moment to the highest degree. 



CHAPTER II 

THE SUPER-PHYSICAL BREATH 

Important Fact. — The physical atmosphere 
with which we are surrounded, and portions of 
which we inhale with every breath, is not com- 
posed of physical elements alone. And when we 
breathe, we take into the system something more 
besides the air that enters the lungs. The fact 
is, that the physical atmosphere is charged with 
certain vital forces, or life energies, that are 
drawn more or less into the physical system when 
we breathe; and that invariably tend to increase 
the vital energy of the system. In some locali- 
ties the atmosphere contains more of this vital 
force than elsewhere; and we always find that 
the population of such localities feel stronger, 
more energetic and more alive, and accomplish 
a great deal more, both in the physical and the 
mental fields of activity. We also find that cer- 
tain individuals have the happy faculty of draw- 
ing into their systems a greater supply than 
usual of this atmospheric life force, regardless 
of where they may live; and, in consequence, 

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THE SUPER-PHYSICAL BREATH 9 

have far more energy, under every circumstance, 
than the majority. 

The Energizing Breath. — It is not aways con- 
venient to select those localities where the atmos- 
phere has the most energy; besides, the atmos- 
phere in every locality may change its energy- 
producing power with every change in climatic 
conditions. We cannot depend, therefore, upon 
conditions as they come and go in the external; 
but we can depend upon our own power to ex- 
tract from the atmosphere all the life energy we 
may desire; for the fact is, that there is an 
abundance of this life energy in the atmosphere 
of any locality, regardless of climatic conditions ; 
and we can, through the energizing breath, or 
the super-physical breath, draw into our systems 
as much of this force as we can hold or apply. 
This must become our purpose, therefore, be- 
cause the human system does require a certain 
amount of this atmospheric energy in order to 
maintain perfect health. And when we can 
draw into the system a great deal more of this 
energy than is required for perfect health, we 
may increase remarkably both our working ca- 
pacity and our joy of living. This latter fact is 
most evident, because it is when we feel as if 
we were literally charged with these highly re-' 
fined life energies that life becomes nothing less 
than supreme joy. And it is then that we want 



io HEALING YOURSELF 

to live for an indefinite period, and achieve won- 
derfully upon this planet. 

The New Way. — In the usual way of breath- 
ing, we inhale what we can appropriate of the 
physical atmosphere, so as to supply certain de- 
mands of nature; and if the atmosphere happens 
to be well charged at the time, we draw into the 
system considerable life energy with every inha- 
lation; but if the atmosphere does not happen 
to be well charged, we receive but a scant supply 
of this energy, and in consequence do not feel as 
strong or as well as usual. In the new way of 
breathing, however, we do not rely merely upon 
what energy may be received in the usual man- 
ner; we make a special effort to draw into the 
system an extra supply of life energy with every 
inhalation. And this we can readily do if we 
observe a few important laws in connection with 
general breathing and special exercises in breath- 
ing. 

How to Begin. — Realize that the atmosphere 
you breathe is charged with certain vital ener- 
gies and that a certain supply of these energies 
is taken into the system with every breath. Then 
realize that you can draw into your system a far 
greater supply of these energies; and that your 
body will have greater vitality and better health 
with every increase of this supply that you re- 



THE SUPER-PHYSICAL BREATH n 

ceive. The fact is, that, although your body may 
be too weak to move around, you can, by draw- 
ing more energy from the atmosphere into your 
system, make your body so strong and so vigor- 
ous that you will actually feel as if you were 
electrically charged through and through. You 
can, through the super-physical breath, restore 
your physical system to full health and vigor, no 
matter how low your vitality may be. And you 
can, in the same manner, increase your physical 
and mental power remarkably every year for an 
indefinite period. 

General Exercise. — Whenever you breathe 
consciously, think deeply of the vital energy of 
the atmosphere; and as you inhale, desire with 
depth of feeling to draw more and more of this 
energy into your system with every breath. In 
ordinary physical breathing, the object is simply 
to secure oxygen for the lungs; but in super- 
physical breathing, the object is to secure a 
greater and a greater supply of that finer life 
energy that permeates the atmosphere every- 
where. And as you make a special and a con- 
scious effort, in your general breathing, to attract 
more of this finer energy, you will soon develop 
the faculty of attracting more of this energy at 
all times, with every breath, whether you think 
of your breathing or not. The result will be that 



12 HEALING YOURSELF 

you will always have more energy than usual, 
and in every kind of atmosphere or climatic con- 
dition. 

Special Exercise. — Be seated in a comfortable 
position, a position that will permit of a free and 
easy exercise of the lungs. See that there is an 
abundance of fresh air in the room. Then be- 
gin to breathe, gently and deeply, inhaling and 
exhaling slowly, holding the breath a few sec- 
onds after each inhalation, and being particular 
to note that the lungs are filled comfortably, 
through and through, with each succeeding in- 
halation. Continue this mode of breathing for 
ten or fifteen minutes, and as you do so turn your 
attention upon the finef life currents of the at- 
mosphere. Try to get into conscious touch with 
the finer forces of these currents, and try to draw 
a goodly supply of those forces into your system 
with every inhalation. In this connection, it is 
most important to realize that the finer forces 
of the atmosphere that surround you will obey 
the desires of your mind. Therefore , if you 
place your mind and thought in touch with those 
forces, and deeply desire to draw them into your 
system as you inhale, those forces will actually 
obey; and you will receive a far greater supply 
of life energy from the atmosphere than usual. 

The Chief Secret. — In order to draw more and 
more of this life force into your system as you 



THE SUPER-PHYSICAL BREATH 13 

breathe, the chief secret is to get your mind into 
such close contact with the finer side of that 
force, that you can actually feel it coming into 
every atom of your body with every breath. And 
this closer contact may be secured, by thinking 
deeply and frequently of the finer energies of the 
atmosphere, concentrating attention, as much as 
possible, upon that finer feeling in yourself that 
can feel the finer forces within you and about 
you. With practice and perseverance this finer 
feeling will come; and by using the mind in the 
attitude of that finer feeling, you can get into 
perfect touch with that finer force, thereby mas- 
tering the chief secret in the super-physical 
breath. 

Further Information. — During this special 
exercise, try to draw an extra supply of atmos- 
pheric energy into your system with every inha- 
lation; then as you hold your breath for a few 
seconds, try to feel that this finer energy is pene- 
trating every fiber in your being, giving new 
life and vitality to every nerve and cell; and as 
you exhale, try to feel that all the extra energy 
received is retained in the system, as a perma- 
nent addition to your physical and mental power. 
Then inhale again, as before, repeating the entire 
process again and again, gently and in poise, for 
ten or fifteen minutes. At the close of this exer- 
cise, you will feel that you have a great deal more 



i 4 HEALING YOURSELF 

vitality in your system than you ever felt before, 
even though you did not get fully into the real 
secret of the exercise. But when you do get 
fully into the real secret of this exercise, you will 
actually feel like a "live wire," and you will feel 
strong enough "to move the world." However, 
do not permit yourself to be carried away. Be 
calm and continue in poise. 

Positive Results. — This special exercise may 
be taken twice a day, preferably in the morning 
and early in the afternoon ; but it is an excellent 
practice to employ the same process for a minute 
or two any time during the day when you have 
the opportunity. The result will be a steady in- 
crease of energy and vitality ; and where the body 
is ailing, this increase of energy will soon pro- 
vide you with sufficient health-giving vitality to 
eliminate completely every trace of disease, and 
restore your system absolutely to full health and 
vigor. And here it is well to repeat the great 
fact, that whenever the physical system becomes 
thoroughly filled with vital energy, it is impos- 
sible for any form of disease to remain in that 
system any more. When the room is filled with 
light, all darkness must entirely disappear. One 
of the great secrets to perfect health, therefore, 
is to fill the system thoroughly with vital energy ; 
and super-physical breathing can positively do 
this under every circumstance. 



THE SUPER-PHYSICAL BREATH 15 

Further Application. — The reason why we 
speak of this process as super-physical breathing 
is found in the fact that it deals with the attrac- 
tion and appropriation of forces that are finer 
than the usual physical forces; and that it is a 
higher form of breathing added to the ordinary 
physical breathing. It is in every sense super- 
physical in its application; but it provides those 
finer life energies that alone can give the physical 
system that greater measure of vitality and force 
required for the highest state of vigorous health 
and power. It is therefore physical breathing 
extended, advanced and perfected to a much 
greater degree of effectiveness, and lifted up, so 
to speak, to a plane of action where we may 
draw upon the tremendous forces of nature in 
its finer and inexhaustible domains. This being 
true, we realize that the further application of 
the super-physical breath holds, within itself, 
most remarkable possibilities. We find that we 
may, through the simpler application of this 
breathing, supply the physical system with more 
and more vital energy until the body becomes 
strong enough to put every form of disease out 
of the way. And this is indeed a great achieve- 
ment in itself. But when we find that we are sur- 
rounded with a limitless sea of inexhaustible 
energy, that permeates the atmosphere every- 
where, and that we can learn to draw, more and 



16 HEALING YOURSELF 

more, upon this vast sea of energy through what 
we speak of as the super-physical breath, we 
realize what the further application of this great 
secret will mean. And our conclusion must be, 
that we will not delay this practice or study an- 
other day, but proceed at once to master this 
remarkable secret in every form and manner. 



CHAPTER III 

PSYCHOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM 

A Remarkable Fact. — If every man, woman 
and child in the world would attain to what we 
shall here speak of as psychological equilibrium, 
and would continue to live in that equilibrium, 
we should find, in less than a year, that more 
than ninety per cent of all the ailments of man- 
kind would have disappeared completely. 

The Reason Why. — The majority of all the 
ills that come to the human family have their 
origin, either in loss of vital energy, or in nerv- 
ous conditions; that is, interior discord. But 
psychological equilibrium means interior har- 
mony and balance; and therefore, when such an 
equilibrium is maintained, all nervous conditions 
and every form of nervousness will cease to exist 
in the system. 

Wonderful Remedy. — Learn to live continu- 
ally in a state of psychological equilibrium, and 
you will cure yourself absolutely of any and 
every nervous ailment you may have ; and this is 
of vast importance, as there are very few people 

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18 HEALING YOURSELF 

to be found that are not addicted to nervousness 
of some kind. And more than this : continue to 
live in this equilibrium, and you will avoid all 
nervous or mental ailments in the future. Your 
nerves will always be strong, and your mind in 
perfect harmony and balance. And here we 
should remember, that when the mind is always 
well the body will always be well. 

A Personal Experiment. — Watch yourself 
closely for one whole day, with a view of ascer- 
taining whether or not every element in your be- 
ing has continued to act in perfect harmony and 
balance. In brief, ask yourself if you can actu- 
ally feel harmonious in the within during that 
entire day. Then note the answer. If you do 
not feel harmonious in the within all through the 
day, you are addicted to nervousness; you are 
troubled with interior discord; and interior dis- 
cord may, at any time, work itself out into all 
kinds of functional or organic ailments. But if 
you do feel harmonious in the within all through 
the day, you are living in a state of psychological 
equilibrium ; and the spirit of health is abroad in 
every part of your system. 

Remember This. — If you wish to be well, every 
organ in your body must perform its function 
perfectly; but no physical organ can perform its 
function perfectly unless it can act continually 
in a state of interior harmony and poise. The 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM 19 

very moment you feel nervous, restless, agitated, 
disturbed or discordant in the within, you are 
undermining the natural and harmonious actions 
of your physical organs ; and they will fail to do 
their duty. The result is that adverse conditions 
will arise, which, if not checked, may develop 
into serious ailments. It is absolutely necessary 
therefore to maintain interior harmony at all 
times, and such harmony may be realized 
through the attainment of psychological equilib- 
rium. 

The Two Sides. — There are two sides to the 
human system : the physiological and the psycho- 
logical. And the latter governs the former. 
The physiological side is that part of the human 
system that can be weighed and measured. The 
psychological side is the interior, the intangible, 
the invisible; and, in brief, the sum total of all 
the forces, under-currents, feelings, emotions, 
chemical processes and interior activities that 
live and act and work in the body, but that are 
finer than the body, being composed, not of 
physical substance or matter, but of energies 
proceeding from mind and soul. And whenever 
the psychological side is disturbed, there will be 
a corresponding disturbance in the physiological ; 
that is, any disturbance that you may feel in the 
within will produce a similar disturbance in the 
organs of the body, thereby preventing those 



20 HEALING YOURSELF 

organs from doing their work as they should. 

The Ideal in View. — In the attainment of per- 
fect health, our ideal in view must ever be to 
maintain that deep interior harmony and calm, 
wherein we feel that we are inwardly strong and 
inwardly serene at the same time— and at all 
times. Our aim must be to keep all the psycho- 
logical factors within us in harmony and in bal- 
ance, because this is indispensable to the highest 
degree of perfect health. The within must be 
charged with power, and alive through and 
through with perfect peace. 

First Experiment. — Try for one whole day to 
feel exceedingly strong, and perfectly serene in 
the within. However active you may be with 
mind or body, try to feel this interior peace and 
power combine in your system every moment. 
But do not try hard. Simply know what you 
want to do ; then know that you can. The experi- 
ment will be extremely interesting, and will mark 
a most important turning point in your life. 

An Even Temper. — We all realize the value of 
an even temper if we wish to gain or retain 
perfect health; but an even temper is a state of 
mind that exists merely on the surface; it is a 
mere effect of deeper states of poise within. 
When we speak of the state of psychological 
equilibrium, however, we are dealing with the 
deepest state of feeling and life that we possess. 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM 21 

We are dealing with those factors and forces 
within us that govern all physical conditions ab- 
solutely. And, therefore, we must have equi- 
librium, balance and harmony among the psy- 
chological factors before we can have equilib- 
rium, balance and harmony among the physical 
factors. The body can be in order only when 
those finer and deeper forces within us, that 
govern the body, are in order. Physical health 
invariably proceeds from interior harmony; and 
when all the psychological or interior factors 
are in harmony, every cell in the body will be in 
perfect health. 

General Exercise. — Form in your mind a clear 
idea of what the psychological factors really are. 
Then proceed to picture in your mind a state of 
being wherein all those factors are in harmony 
and equilibrium. Dwell deeply and constantly 
upon this mental picture until you can actually 
feel the spirit of this harmony and equilibrium 
gaining a deeper and deeper foothold in your 
system. In brief, try to live in the very soul of 
this interior state of perfect equilibrium ; and try 
to realize the active presence of this state in every 
atom of your being. You will soon begin to feel 
the harmony you have in mind; and this feel- 
ing will become deeper and stronger every day 
until it becomes a permanent part of your con- 
sciousness. 



22 HEALING YOURSELF 

Special Exercise. — Take ten minutes two or 
three times every day for the purpose of estab- 
lishing permanently absolutely equilibrium, 
among the psychological factors, through the 
power of concentration ; and proceed as follows : 

Turn attention upon all the psychological fac- 
tors in your system, including your feelings, 
your emotions, the under-currents of all the phys- 
ical processes, the creative forces of mind and 
body, the interior workings of your system, the 
finer forces and elements in your personality, the 
mental life of every fibre and cell, the mentalities 
of all the organs in your body, and, briefly, 
everything in your system that you can think of 
as being psychological. Then group all of these 
factors in your imagination, by thinking of them 
as acting in a finer interior field within your 
system. 

In other words, turn your attention upon the 
psychological field within your own personality. 
Then concentrate upon that field, with a deep, 
strong desire to feel and realize absolute har- 
mony and equilibrium among all the elements and 
factors in that field. When concentrating, be 
calm, positive and determined; and hold in your 
mind the idea of interior harmony so deeply that 
the feeling of this harmony will penetrate every 
fibre, nerve and cell in your entire body. Thus 
you will steadily, and surely, create interior 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM 23 

harmony throughout your entire system. You 
will establish psychological equilibrium among 
all the factors and elements within you; and 
when this equilibrium has become a permanent 
state in your deeper life, you will find that order, 
harmony and perfect health will be realized in 
your physical life. 

Very Important. — Remember this, that so 
long as there is perfect harmony within you there 
will be perfect health in every nerve, fibre and 
cell in your system. The attainment of psycho- 
logical equilibrium, therefore, is an attainment 
of the highest importance. But this interior 
harmony must be perfect. 



CHAPTER IV 

NOURISHING THE BODY 

First Rule. — When you enter the dining room, 
array yourself in the garment of joy. Forget 
your troubles, if you have any, and be happy. 
Talk happiness ; think happiness ; feel happiness ; 
radiate happiness. Live in the spirit of mental 
sunshine, and give no serious thought to anything 
whatever. Light-heartedness and good cheer 
should prevail at this hour ; and during this hour 
count it your privilege to eat, drink and be merry. 
And you can. Realize that when you are in the 
dining room you are in another world, away 
from problems, difficulties or weighty themes. 
You have come to enjoy a feast; so, therefore, 
make it a feast in every sense of the term. 

Second Rule. — Do not merely eat to live; and 
do not merely live to eat; there is a happy me- 
dium. Make your eating not the whole of your 
life, but a very important part of your life. En- 
joy your meals ; and enjoy them thoroughly. A 
meal that is thoroughly enjoyed will be thor- 
oughly digested. Please remember this great 

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NOURISHING THE BODY 25 

fact. And it is a great fact, for a perfect diges- 
tion is not only necessary to the best expression 
of the body, but also to the best expression of 
the mind and the soul. Everything in your sys- 
tem works better when digestion is good. And 
as the body is the instrument of mind and soul, 
it is clearly evident that mind and soul can act 
as they should only when the body is in perfect 
condition. The piano must be perfectly tuned if 
the music is to be perfect in harmony and supe- 
rior in quality. Think of your body as a musical 
instrument. Then remember that the perfect 
harmony of that instrument depends so much on 
a perfect digestion; and realize that every meal 
will be thoroughly digested if thoroughly en- 
joyed. 

Third Rule. — In making the proper selection 
of your food, do not be too particular. See that 
the food is nourishing, wholesome, clean and cor- 
rectly prepared. Then make up your mind to 
enjoy it all to the full. Do not go to the table in 
a fault-finding attitude. So long as you are in 
that attitude you cannot digest anything. Your 
indigestion, therefore, will not be the result of 
your food, but the result of your disagreeable 
state of mind. Remember, that a disagreeable 
state of mind can upset your entire system, and 
even convert the digestive juices of your system 
into poisonous elements. So do not blame the 



26 HEALING YOURSELF 

food. Most food is harmless. But see that your 
mind is right before you enter the dining room. 
Never eat when cross, upset, agitated, nervous, 
worried or in a state of fear. Throw these 
things off. First, get your mind right. Turn on 
a goodly supply of mental sunshine, and be glad. 
And by all means, never get into the habit of 
thinking that you cannot eat "this" or digest 
"that." The fact is you can eat anything that is 
wholesome and nourishing; and you can digest 
every bit of it, if you think so, and partake of 
your meals in the spirit of sunshine and joy. 

Fourth Rule. — When you are in the dining 
room, take your time. Hurried eating means 
nothing but loss all along the line. Hurried 
meals are never digested perfectly; so, there- 
fore, they nourish the system but in part, and 
they lead to many ailments, which means loss of 
time, money and pleasure. When your meals are 
properly digested, you can accomplish more in 
one hour than you can in three when digestion 
is not good. Sufficient time for your meals, 
therefore, is a good investment, both, for the 
present and the future. Take all the time neces- 
sary to fully enjoy your meals, and permit mind 
and body to remain relaxed and care-free for 
about thirty minutes more. You owe this time to 
your body. Be good to your physical body. It 
is your duty and your privilege. If your body 



NOURISHING THE BODY 27 

is treated well it will serve you long and serve 
you well; and, in addition, contribute immensely 
to the joys of existence. 

Fifth Rule. — Consider the entire process of 
digestion, and remember that this process begins 
the very moment you can taste your food. 
Therefore, do not ignore this first part of the 
process. On the contrary, continue to taste your 
food as long as you can ; that is, continue to mas- 
ticate every mouthful as long as it can be tasted. 
This is one of the most important secrets to a 
perfect digestion. It matters not how weak your 
stomach may be, if you continue to masticate 
every mouthful as long as it can be tasted, and 
eat moderately, the entire meal will be well di- 
gested. And your stomach will gain in strength 
every day, until perfect health and vigor is re- 
gained. In addition to this, it is a fact that a 
thoroughly masticated meal will give from ten to 
one hundred per cent more nourishment to the 
body than a meal partaken of in the usual man- 
ner. And the better you nourish your body the 
better will be your health, the stronger you will 
be, both physically and mentally, the longer you 
will live, and the easier you will find it to stay 
young as long as you live. 

Sixth Rule.— It is highly important that the 
circulation be full and vigorous throughout the 
digestive system. A full circulation will not only 



28 HEALING YOURSELF 

promote digestion, but will also give a more im- 
mediate and a more perfect distribution to the 
nourishing elements secured from the food. 
This matter, therefore, should receive our best 
attention, and we shall find it an excellent prac- 
tice to concentrate the mind, gently and peace- 
fully, upon the abdominal region, for a few mo- 
ments preceding every meal. During this con- 
centration we should deeply desire the increase 
of the circulation throughout that region, and we 
should try to feel that increase actually taking 
place. This simple method will add remarkably 
to the vigor of the digestive organs; and this 
method alone will cure almost any ailment of the 
digestive system. It will always give relief; and 
when combined with the other secrets to good 
health, will cure every ailment that may be con- 
nected with the digestive process in any form or 
manner. If there seems to be considerable dif- 
ficulty with digestion this method may also be 
applied for a few moments immediately after 
each meal. And when the digestive organs do 
not act as nature intended, use this method thor- 
oughly, several times every day. Concentrate 
deeply, with a will, especially upon the lower 
parts of the abdominal region, and deeply feel 
the desired action taking place. Make it a point 
at all times to see that your circulation is full and 
vigorous all through your body. There is noth- 



NOURISHING THE BODY 29 

ing that will do more than a good circulation to 
keep the body clean, wholesome and well. And 
you can increase the circulation in any part of 
your body through right and harmonious use of 
mind, thought, feeling, concentration and will. 

Seventh Rule. — To nourish the body properly 
it is not necessary to adopt any particular system 
of diet. Anything that is wholesome and prop- 
erly prepared may be partaken of freely, if par- 
taken of in joy. Never be a "crank" about your 
food. A "cranky mind" is an enemy to good di- 
gestion; and you will find that people who are 
following "fads" in foods, are forever "dieting" 
to keep their digestion in order. Take the com- 
mon sense way and select freely from all kinds 
of food, always selecting the wholesome and the 
clean. Then eat, in the spirit of good cheer, what 
your system seems to require, and think of it all 
as good — very good. Eat what you want, but 
only as much as you need, and enjoy every meal 
as you would a royal feast. In fact, think of 
every meal as a royal feast, and so it will be to 
you. 

Eighth Rule. — Think of your food as not 
merely having physical elements, but also finer 
elements. All food is charged, so to speak, with 
finer elements and energies ; and, if we recognize 
these in our own minds, at every meal, we will 
assimilate them more thoroughly, and thereby 



30 HEALING YOURSELF 

add remarkably to the vitality of the system. 
Train your mind to think of your food as hav- 
ing, stored up in every atom, life-giving ener- 
gies, in addition to nourishing properties and 
elements ; and you will soon find that every meal 
will give you far more energy, vitality and work- 
ing capacity than you ever realized before. In 
addition, you will find yourself gaining more and 
more of that finer force that makes the human 
personality something more than a physical body 
with a nervous system. And, as we all desire 
our personalities to attain that "something more" 
state of being, this part of our theme will be 
found extremely important. 



CHAPTER V 



NOURISHING THE MIND 



Fundamental Law. — As the mind is, so is also 
the body. When the mind is in order, the body 
will be in order, and vice versa. When the mind 
is in good health, the body will be in good health. 
When the mind begins to lose hold upon life, the 
body will gradually weaken until personal exist- 
ence cannot be maintained any longer. When the 
mind lays hold upon more and more life, the body 
will steadily gain in the possession of life, until 
there is sufficient life and vitality, in every organ 
in the body, to eliminate every ailment in the 
present, and prevent all ailments in the future. 
When the mind is young, the body will be young. 
And whatever is realized in the mind will be ex- 
pressed through the body. See that the mind is 
right, and all else will be right in the human 
system. 

Leading Essential. — To keep the mind right, 
every part of the mind must be properly nour- 
ished. And the real secret in nourishing the 
mind is to see that every part of the mind is con- 

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32 HEALING YOURSELF 

stantly interested in the new, the larger and the 
higher. In the body, it is nourishment that pro- 
duces growth ; in the mind, it is growth that pro- 
duces nourishment. 

Food for the Mind. — It is new thought that 
constitutes the proper food for the mind; and 
the more new thought the mind is given the privi- 
lege to create, the better the mind will be nour- 
ished. To create new thought the mind must con- 
stantly advance towards the new, into the new, 
and up into the larger and the higher. And such 
an advancement can only follow a deep, strong 
and ceaseless interest in the new, the superior, 
and the most perfect everywhere. 

Mental Expansion. — If mental expansion be 
made perpetual, health will become perpetual, 
and youth will become perpetual. The body can- 
not become old so long as the mind continues to 
grow; and as long as every part of the mind is 
active and alive, every part of the body will be 
strong, wholesome and well. When parts of the 
mind become inactive, groups of cells here and 
there in many parts of the body will also become 
inactive; and inactive cells not only become ob- 
stacles to the natural functions of the body, but 
these cells will soon harden and ossify. And it 
is the hardening of the cells that produces old 
age. The hardening of the cells also produces 
many ailments, because nature cannot do its 



NOURISHING THE MIND 33 

work properly when dead and hardened cells are 
scattered in groups here and there all through the 
body. It is impossible, however, for a single cell 
in the body to harden or ossify so long as every 
part of the mind is alive. The mind is in vital 
touch with every cell, fibre and atom in the phys- 
ical body; and as every cell responds absolutely 
to the actions of the mind, no cell can be dead 
so long as every part of the mind is alive. 

The Growing Mind. — To keep every part of 
the mind alive, the whole mind must be well nour- 
ished ; and the only mind that is well nourished is 
the growing mind. The mind feeds on change. 
The mind that does not change will starve; and 
when the mind starves the body dries up, withers, 
becomes old and ossified. This condition may 
take place however well the body may be nour- 
ished; for, although it is well to give proper 
nourishment to the body, it is more important to 
give proper nourishment to the mind. 

Very Important. — We must remember this, 
and remember it well, that every cell in the body 
is closely connected, through the nervous sys- 
tem, with the mind; and also that every cell is 
directly influenced by the mind. In fact, all the 
cells in the body tend to act as the mind acts, 
tend to become what the mind becomes, and tend 
to change or improve as the mind improves. 
Therefore, if certain parts of the mind should 



34 HEALING YOURSELF 

become inactive, a great many of the cells in the 
body would also fall into inactivity. And an 
inactive cell soon becomes a dead, hardened or 
ossified cell, which means the coming of disease, 
old age or inability in one or many ways. It is 
absolutely necessary, therefore, if we wish to 
retain health and youth, that every part of the 
mind be alive — that the whole mind continue to 
grow, expand and develop perpetually. 

Practical Methods. — In the first place, remem- 
ber the great law, renew your mind and be well. 
And to renew the mind we must be interested in 
the new — deeply and vitally interested in the new 
along all lines. We must learn to live for the 
growing, advancing, expanding life ; and we must 
become enthused over every step in progress that 
the race may take, in any direction, or under any 
circumstance. Everything that is new must 
arouse and attract our attention; and we must 
keep our eyes open to the new, everywhere, with 
an interest that is thoroughly alive, and thor- 
oughly wide awake in every form and manner. 
In brief, we must develop an intense passion for 
the new — the new in all things, and the new in 
higher and greater things. The entire soul must 
be aroused with a ceaseless desire to realize the 
new, and to change perpetually into more perfect 
states and degrees of the new. And this process 
must become a positive force in the system — so 



NOURISHING THE MIND 35 

positive and so strong that every fiber and cell is 
thrilled with the spirit of a new life. 

First Exercise. — The first thing to do is to 
wake up the mind — every part of the mind. And 
remember that the moment every part of the 
mind is thoroughly wide awake, every cell in 
the body will be thoroughly alive. This means 
the coming of good health, for when all the cells 
in the body are thoroughly alive, there can be 
no disease in that body whatever. A cell that is 
alive cannot be sick. It is the dead cells and 
hardened cells that cause all the trouble. But 
when all the cells are alive, there will be no dead 
or hardened cells to give the body trouble; and, 
in consequence, health, order and harmony will 
prevail throughout the system. To proceed, 
apply the will upon every part of the mind, with 
a deep, strong desire to become mentally wide 
awake in every form and manner. Continue this 
process for a few moments, and repeat several 
times every day. The result of this simple exer- 
cise alone will, in a very short time, renew the 
entire body; for the fact is, that an awakened 
mind will renew itself very quickly; and when 
the mind is renewed, the body is renewed in a 
similar manner. 

Special Exercise. — Make it your purpose to 
look for the new everywhere, in all things, and 
at all times. And awaken within yourself a 



36 HEALING YOURSELF 

deeper and a stronger interest in every mani- 
festation of the new. Try to interest every part 
of your mind in the new along all lines ; and try 
to arouse your whole mind to become wide awake 
to the force of growth and progress at work in 
all the world. Whenever you have a moment to 
spare, think of the new; think of new possibili- 
ties and new developments ; and engage your at- 
tention, with the greatest enthusiasm, in every- 
thing new you can observe at the time. The 
effect will be remarkable, as it will not only 
awaken many parts of the mind that have here- 
tofore been dormant, but will also train the mind 
in the art of discerning the new, the larger and 
the greater in all things. And it is such a mind 
that will become a growing mind, which is most 
important because so long as the mind continues 
to grow, the body will continue to be well. 

An Excellent Practice. — Begin the day by re- 
solving to see how many new things you can find 
during the day. Also begin the day by resolv- 
ing to think more new things than you ever 
thought of in any day in the past. This will keep 
the mind awake to the new all through the day; 
and the mind that is continually wide awake to 
the new will continue to be a growing mind. 
This same practice will make every part of the 
mind more and more alive; and this means that 
every cell in the body will become more and more 



NOURISHING THE MIND 37 

alive — the very purpose we have in view; for it 
is absolutely impossible for a cell to be sick that is 
thoroughly alive. And here it is well to repeat 
that it is impossible for the body to get sick or 
get old so long as the mind continues to grow. 
The growing mind is the one great preventative 
for sickness or age; and the growing mind is the 
greatest remedy of all, whatever the ailment or 
difficulty may be. See that your mind continues 
every day, and every hour, to be a growing mind, 
and you will always have health and youth, no 
matter how long you may live. 

The Great Law. — Everything must be nour- 
ished if it is to continue to live; and everything 
will continue to live so long as it is properly 
nourished. But the mind of man has not been 
properly nourished; accordingly, the mind has 
weakened from year to year; and what happens 
to the mind happens to the body also. From this 
weakness, or lack of abundant life, has come ail- 
ments and age, all of which could have been pre- 
vented through the proper nourishment of the 
mind. The mind, however, is not nourished by 
what comes from without, or by what may be 
received from external sources. It is new 
thought alone that can nourish the mind; and 
the only thought that is new to any individual 
mind is the thought created by that mind itself 
while in search of the new. The great secret, 



38 HEALING YOURSELF 

therefore, in nourishing the mind is to train the 
whole mind to develop an intense passion for the 
new — the new in all things, from the most simple 
to the most sublime. Such a mind will indeed 
be a growing mind; and so long as the mind 
continues to grow the body will continue to be 
well. And, also, if mental expansion be made 
perpetual, health will become perpetual, and 
youth will become perpetual. 



CHAPTER VI 



THE WILL TO BE WELL 



Know the Will. — We must understand the 
will, and its true function, if we would always 
be well. And the reason is evident. The will is 
one of the most important factors in the human 
system, and contains, within itself, powers and 
possibilities that the majority have never called 
forth into action at any time. These powers, 
however, can, when applied, turn the tide of life 
in our favor, no matter what the difficulties or 
circumstances may be. And this is especially 
true in the realization of perfect health. 

The Power of Will. — We must always will to 
act before we can act, whether the action be 
physical or mental. And the more we express 
in the action the more powerful and effective 
will that action be. Whatever we do, therefore, 
results will depend largely upon how much will 
we give to the work or purpose in hand. This 
being true, we should always turn on the full cur- 
rent of the will. We should never act in a half- 
hearted way, but should invariably act with all 

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40 HEALING YOURSELF 

the power and will we possess. We should al- 
ways will to be our best, and will to do our best. 
The increase, when we come to measure results, 
will be very great indeed. 

Important Fact. — The more will you apply 
along any line of action, the more energy and 
power you cause to flow into the same line of 
action. Continue to will, with force, determina- 
tion and persistence, upon any purpose or project, 
and you will gradually draw more and more 
energy into that purpose, until all the power 
within you is working with you, and for you, in 
the realization of that purpose. Then you can 
certainly get results, the greatest and best results 
possible. 

Will to Be Well. — The same rule holds good 
in your purpose to gain health, or build up a 
greater measure of health. Will to be well; and 
you cause all the energies within you to work 
for better and better health. Will to be strong; 
and you aid nature, both directly and indirectly, 
in building up the strength, the vigor and the 
virility of your entire system. Turn on the full 
current of the will, and you aid nature immensely. 
You turn the tide of life in your own favor. You 
inspire all the elements and forces within you to 
leave the side of weakness, and go over to the 
side of life, power and strength. You turn con- 
ditions round about completely, so that the things 



THE WILL TO BE WELL 41 

that were against you will henceforth be for you. 
You can do all these things, if you use the will 
— the full current of the will, and always will 
to be what you want to be. 

First Exercise. — Take positive hold of your 
will, and be determined, henceforth, to apply the 
full power of the will — and always for more life, 
for more energy, for greater strength, for better 
health, and for everything that can add to your 
greatest welfare and highest good. Take hold 
of the will in this way, many times every day; 
and in every instance feel deeply, and be tre- 
mendously in earnest. 

Second Exercise. — Turn the power of the will 
upon all the conditions of your health ; and train 
yourself, more and more, to will greater vitality 
and better health into every part of your system. 
And whenever you use the will feel deeply. Try 
to feel that the force of your will comes forth 
from the great and invincible powers of the soul ; 
and try to feel that whatever you will to realize 
or attain must come to pass. The power of the 
soul can never fail; and your will — your true 
will — is the power of the soul in positive, deter- 
mined expression. 

Third Exercise. — Turn the power of the will 
upon that part of your body that may need better 
health. Then will more and more life, power 
and health into, and through, that part of the 



42 HEALING YOURSELF 

body, until you can actually feel every cell thrill 
with vigor and virility. Think of that part of 
the body, with depth of feeling, and will to be 
well. Concentrate all your thought, and the full 
power of mind and soul, upon that part of the 
body, and will to be well. And know that the 
power of your will comes from the limitless 
power of your own invincible soul. You may 
therefore have unbounded faith in what you are 
doing, because you know that the results you 
desire must positively follow. 

The Strong Mind. — Whenever you think, or 
use your mind in any form or manner, use more 
and more of the will. Make your entire mental 
world positive and strong. And always remem- 
ber to combine deep feeling with every exercise 
or expression of the will. This is most impor- 
tant, because the deeper the feeling, the stronger 
the will under every circumstance. And a 
strong, deep will means a strong mind; which, 
in turn, means greater power of mind over all 
physical conditions. The mind is by right the 
master over the body. Therefore, the stronger 
the mind becomes the greater becomes your 
power to master and regulate every part of your 
body. And this is a power we all want to pos- 
sess. When the mind can control the body 
perfectly, then we may always have perfect 
health, an unlimited amount of vitality, and 



THE WILL TO BE WELL 43 

an abundance of rich, wholesome, energizing life. 

Personal Power. — Use the full power of the 
will upon your entire personality. Make your 
personality strong, positive, alive. Will to have 
more personal power. Will to express more per- 
sonal power in every movement of the body, in 
every feeling of the mind, and in every action 
of the soul. Will more life and more energy into 
every cell in your body, into every nerve, into 
every fiber, into every force, into every function. 
Be determined to be personally strong and virile. 
And use the full power of the will with this im- 
portant end in view. The result will be that you 
will gain in every form and manner, especially 
in vigor and in health. When you apply the full 
power of the will upon every part of the person- 
ality, you arouse, to positive action, all the vital 
energies within you; and when your personality 
is thoroughly alive, it is absolutely impossible for 
any ailment whatever to enter your system. 

Do Not Give In. — When conditions in your 
system seem adverse, do not permit yourself to 
ever think of giving up, or giving in. Will to 
pull through. For the fact is, that so long as you 
hold on, with the full power of will, the forces of 
life in your system will be on your side working 
in your favor. The forces in your system will 
never give up so long as you refuse to give up. 
And there is no condition in your system that the 



44 HEALING YOURSELF 

forces of life, in your system, cannot overcome if 
you give them sufficient time, continuous encour- 
agement, and the full force of your own deter- 
mined will. Will to stand by the powers within 
you, under every circumstance, and those pow- 
ers will stand by you. They will positively see 
you through; and you will come out with full 
victory, and with a greater realization of free- 
dom than you ever knew before. 

Most Important. — Train your mind to realize, 
more and more deeply, that will power is soul 
power ; that the real power of the will comes from 
the soul ; and that the soul is positively invincible. 
Then proceed, in this realization to will to be 
well Continue, under every circumstance, to 
will to be well, knowing that the limitless power 
of the soul is back of your will, in your will, and 
working positively, with full force, through your 
will. 

Special Exercise. — Take several moments, 
three or four times every day, and give special 
attention to the making of the will stronger, 
deeper and more positive. First, simply will to 
will more; that is, think of your will, knowing 
what it is, and determine to express more of the 
power of will in every act of the will. This, in 
itself, will, even in a few days, strengthen the 
will remarkably; and you will find that you can 
give a great deal more power and effective ac- 



THE WILL TO BE WELL 45 

tion to everything you purpose or undertake. 
Second, concentrate the will, with deep feeling 
and more determined action, upon the various 
faculties and qualities in your mind, and upon 
the various functions in your personality. In 
fact, proceed to train the mind to express more 
will into everything in your entire system. 
Third, direct your subconscious mind to give 
greater force, greater volume, greater positive- 
ness, greater power, and deeper action to every 
expression of your will. This is most important ; 
and here we should remember, that the subcon- 
scious will invariably does whatever it is directed 
to do, provided we feel deeply when we give the 
directions, and continue to be tremendously in 
earnest. 

Gaining Ground. — The more you apply the 
foregoing methods and principles, the stronger 
and deeper will the will become. And as the will 
develops in force, positiveness and power, you 
will find that you will gain ground continually in 
the building up of mind and body, provided you 
make it the great rule of your life — to will to be 
well. And results will increase the more deeply 
you feel that the limitless power of the soul is 
back of your will, in your will, and working posi- 
tively, with full force, through your will. 



CHAPTER VII 



INTERIOR RELAXATION 



The First Principle. — Nature demands re- 
cuperation. If all the functions of nature are to 
perform their duties properly, there must be pe- 
riods set aside, every day, for complete recuper- 
ation. The energies that have been utilized must 
be replaced; and the cells that have served their 
purpose must be eliminated, and new ones built 
up instead. In brief, the entire physical and 
mental system must be reconstructed and made 
over new; and all the natural processes of re- 
pair, renewal and reconstruction must be given 
the opportunity to complete their work thor- 
oughly, at least once in every twenty-four hours. 
And this opportunity, when fully realized, consti- 
tutes complete recuperation. 

Important Fact. — If the entire human system 
were given the opportunity to recuperate thor- 
oughly at least once every day, it would be im- 
possible for disease of any kind to enter the sys- 
tem; and conditions of old age could never gain 
a foothold in a single organ or cell in the body. 

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INTERIOR RELAXATION 47 

And the reason why is this, that complete re- 
cuperation would mean, first, complete renewal of 
all the cells ; and second, the thorough recharging 
of every part of the system with vital energy. 
Thus the two great essentials to health and youth 
would be provided, because it is impossible for 
any kind of disease to enter the human system 
so long as there is a full supply of vital energy; 
and it is impossible for old age conditions to gain 
a foothold anywhere so long as nature is given 
the privilege to renew every cell in the system the 
very moment the former cell has fully served its 
purpose. 

The Second Principle. — Complete recuper- 
ation of mind and body can take place only when 
the entire human system is thoroughly relaxed; 
and relaxation is thorough only when it becomes, 
what we may well term, interior relaxation. 
That is, the process of relaxation must originate 
in the within, or on the subconscious side of life, 
and must penetrate, in every form and manner, 
both the interior and the exterior phases of the 
personality. 

Meaning of Relaxation. — In the usual state of 
conscious activity, the human system continues 
to give expression to all its forces and elements. 
The exterior side of the personality is in a posi- 
tive attitude, and all life and power moves from 
the within towards the without. In other words, 



48 HEALING YOURSELF 

all the energies of the system are going out into, 
and through, the various organs, to carry out the 
active functions of mind and body; and in this 
process a large part of the available energy is 
utilized, and many of the cells complete their pe- 
riod of usefulness. But when relaxation takes 
place, the course of action in the system is re- 
versed; that is, all the elements and forces of 
the system move from the without towards the 
within. The process of expression discontinues, 
and the exterior phase of the personality becomes 
passive instead of positive. 

General Exercise. — Whenever you wish to re- 
lax, turn attention towards the within, or towards 
the subconscious, and "let go," fully expecting all 
the forces of your system to turn about and move, 
gently and peacefully, toward a state of interior 
calm. In a few moments you will feel relaxed all 
the way through, and a serene, restful feeling will 
gradually come over your entire personality. 
This exercise can be taken to advantage, for five 
or ten minutes every two or three hours during 
the day; and should be taken, with unfailing 
punctuality before every meal, regardless of time, 
place or circumstance. 

Results. — The value of this exercise will be 
found in the realization of renewed supply of 
life and energy, at frequent intervals, which 
means that power and capacity will continue to 



INTERIOR RELAXATION 49 

be up to the mark all through the day ; and this 
will mean more work and better work invariably. 
And when this exercise is taken before meals, 
the system will be recharged with vitality, so 
that the process of digestion can be carried on 
perfectly. In fact, if you relax thoroughly, for. 
five minutes, before every meal, you can say fare- 
well, for all time, to all kinds of ailments or an- 
noyances in your digestive functions. 

The Third Principle. — The human system is 
repaired, renewed and recharged by the subcon- 
scious side of life. And in order that these 
necessary processes may take place, there are 
two essentials that must be provided. First, the 
exterior phases of every cell must be passive; 
and, second, consciousness must function prin- 
cipally through the interior phases of every cell 
at the time. And these two essentials are pro- 
vided perfectly when we are in a state of in- 
terior relaxation. That is, when we relax, the 
outer side of life becomes passive; positive ex- 
pression is discontinued; the working forces are 
withdrawn from the external elements of the 
personality, and our conscious actions are "let 
go" so that all our feelings are permitted to "sink 
in" to the deeper subconscious life, where all is 
peaceful and serene. And here it is well to re- 
member that the subconscious always works in 
perfect peace. Subconscious activity is abso- 



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lutely still at all times, sq therefore you may know 
that when you feel deeply, and feel absolutely 
still in the within, the subconscious side of your 
life is doing its work perfectly. And this is the 
state you should enter when you are to realize 
interior relaxation. 

Relax Before Sleep. — We can enjoy sleep only 
when we relax thoroughly for some time before 
going to sleep. In many instances, nature is able 
to provide perfect relaxation just as we are fall- 
ing asleep; but nature has been interfered with 
in so many ways, that many of the natural proc- 
esses do not perform their functions properly un- 
less assisted by mind or thought. We should pro- 
vide this assistance, therefore, by making it a 
practice to enter a state of interior relaxation 
for at least ten minutes before we are ready to 
go to sleep. And we shall find that the purpose of 
sleep will, in this simple practice, be realized to 
the fullest and the most perfect degree. 

Special Exercise. — Take thirty minutes every- 
day, preferably early in the evening, or during the 
latter part of the afternoon, for the purpose of 
entering completely into a perfect state of in- 
terior relaxation. Begin by turning attention 
upon the within. Know that the within is always 
peaceful and still ; and know that your own mind 
and personality will also become peaceful and 
still the moment you come in conscious touch with 



INTERIOR RELAXATION 51 

the within. Then "let go." Try to feel that all 
the forces within you are moving towards the se- 
renity and calm of the subconscious side. 
Breathe peacefully and gently at the time, and 
as you "let go" of the contents of your lungs with 
each exhalation, also "let go" of your own feel- 
ings — letting them "sink in" to the stillness of 
the within. Continue by thinking quietly of your 
external personality as being perfectly passive; 
and picture in your mind, as clearly as possible, 
the forces of your system, moving inwardly, 
gently, serenely, towards the subconscious side. 
Repeat these various processes, in the deep, quiet 
faith that perfect and interior relaxation is being 
realized. Gradually, you will find your conscious 
feeling in a state where you can actually feel that 
your interior life is fully relaxed ; and this is the 
real purpose you have in view. 

Further Exercise. — Your object should be to 
become so familiar with the state of interior re- 
laxation, that you can actually see a mental pic- 
ture of this state whenever you so desire. For 
the fact is, that whatever you can picture in your 
mind, that you can realize at any time. In other 
words, when you can "mentally see" a perfect 
state of interior relaxation, all you need do is to 
turn your attention upon that mental picture 
whenever you wish to enter the relaxed state. 
The elements and forces within you always pro- 



52 HEALING YOURSELF 

ceed at once to do whatever you can perfectly 
picture in your mind as doing. It is highly im- 
portant, therefore, to learn to "mentally see" the 
relaxed state as you know it to be. 

Special Information. — When you are not in 
good health, it is most important that you relax 
more frequently, not less than three or four times 
every day. And as you relax, concentrate sub- 
jectively upon that part of the body that may lack 
in health and vigor. When you concentrate sub- 
jectively upon any part of the body, you think 
of the finer life that permeates the physical side ; 
and therefore, if you relax at the same time, you 
will cause the processes of repair, renewal and 
recuperation to work more perfectly and more 
quickly in that part of the body, thereby hasten- 
ing recovery to a marked degree. In fact, when 
subjective concentration and interior relaxation 
are combined upon that part of the body that is 
ailing, it is possible to secure complete recovery 
in one-half, or even in one-fourth, the time 
usually required by nature herself under similar 
circumstances. We can truthfully say, therefore, 
that these two great factors — subjective concen- 
tration and interior relaxation — when perfectly 
combined, constitute one of the greatest curative 
agents known to modern science. And they who 
will learn to apply these two factors perfectly, in 
combination, will acquire a secret, the value of 
which will be nothing less than extraordinary. 



CHAPTER VIII 

IMAGINE YOURSELF WELL 

The Principle. — The mind always creates what 
we imagine; and it is the imaging faculty that 
determines what we are to think. We are as we 
think; and we think as we imagine. Therefore, 
if we are to think as we wish to think, and be 
what we wish to be, we must first learn to use the 
imaging faculty according to fundamental prin- 
ciple and exact science. 

The First Rule. — Continue to imagine, under 
every circumstance, what you wish to become, 
gain or realize ; but never imagine, for a moment, 
what you do not want. Train your imagination, 
in a most positive manner, every day, to comply 
with this rule ; and gradually you will find that all 
the conditions of mind and body are becoming 
more and more as you wish them to be. 

General Exercise. — Form a mental picture of 
yourself, in your imagination, as you wish to be 
in mind and body. See yourself well and strong 
with the eye of the mind. Imagine that you have 
become what you wish to be; and try to feel, 

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54 HEALING YOURSELF 

through and through, what you have imagined. 
Train your mind to enter as deeply as possible 
into every correct move you make with the imag- 
ination, and be determined to see and feel the per- 
fect picture you have formed of yourself. Make 
a special effort, to this end, many times every day, 
and in fact, whenever you have a moment to 
spare. Think of this perfect picture of yourself, 
as frequently as possible, as much as possible, 
and as deeply as possible. And be tremendously 
in earnest. 

Important Fact. — The human system is con- 
stantly filled with creative energies; these ener- 
gies are at work night and day, building and 
creating; and they always select those things, as 
their patterns, that we imagine with the deepest 
of feeling and the greatest of force. Imagine 
yourself sick, and if you give much force and 
feeling to that imagination, the creative energies 
within you will thereby create, in your system, 
the very ailment you imagine that you have. In 
like manner, imagine yourself perfectly well, and 
those same energies will proceed at once to create 
perfect health in every part of your system. But 
your imagination must be positive, deeply felt 
and thoroughly alive through and through. 
Imagine any condition in yourself, and the crea- 
tive energies will create that condition, provided 
the imagination be deep, vivid and intense. This 






IMAGINE YOURSELF WELL 55 

fact proves that the power of imagination is a 
marvelous power — in truth, the greatest there is 
in man. 

Remember This. — More than ninety per cent 
of the ailments that appear in the human system 
come largely from the misuse of the imagination. 
And it is a positive fact that no sickness could 
appear in the life of any living entity where the 
power of imagination was applied in a positive, 
wholesome and constructive manner during every 
moment of existence. 

The Great Law. — When the imagination of 
man is right, everything in the life of man will be 
right. When we imagine only the true, the per- 
fect and the ideal, we shall constantly grow into 
higher and higher realizations of the true, the 
perfect and the ideal. Thus we gain freedom 
from the lesser or the wrong by constantly rising 
into the greater and the right. 

Special Exercise. — Take ten or fifteen minutes 
of silence, preferably alone. Turn your attention 
upon the great within of your own mind and 
soul. Then picture, in the within, the perfect 
form of health and power that you wish to real- 
ize in your external personality. Think of this 
perfect picture, so deeply, and so vividly, that you 
can actually see it in the light of your own mar- 
velous imagination. And having formed the pic- 
ture in the within, proceed to concentrate upon 



56 HEALING YOURSELF 

that picture with all the mental power you pos- 
sess. Focus attention so absolutely upon that 
picture, in the within, that you know nothing else 
whatever for the time being. Persevere until 
your concentration becomes perfect; and repeat 
the exercise two or three times every day. The 
result of this exercise will be that you will ac- 
tually create, in the within, that very form, or 
new creation, upon which you concentrate with 
such determination and mental power. And 
whatever we create in the within will positively 
express itself in the outer personality. 

Remarkable Law. — Concentrate mind, thought 
and feeling upon any condition in your system, 
and you create that condition invariably, pro- 
vided the power of concentration is directed in- 
wardly, and repeated frequently, with all the 
power you possess. 

Interesting Experiment. — Turn your attention 
upon the great within, and picture, in the within, 
a counterpart of yourself having all the elements, 
qualities and appearance of external youth. In 
brief, imagine the internal existence of a new 
physical form — young, vigorous, virile — alive 
with the fire and splendor of youth. Then con- 
centrate upon this internal form of virility and 
youth, in the same deep and powerful manner, 
as was indicated in the preceding exercise. Re- 
peat many times every day ; and the result will be 



IMAGINE YOURSELF WELL 57 

that you will actually create, in the within, an- 
other personality — a personality with youth, life 
and power. And gradually this young person- 
ality, from within, will come forth into the outer 
physical form, and cause the outer physical form 
to regain, in every mode and manner, all the ele- 
ments, conditions and powers of youth. In brief, 
the newly created personality of youth and viril- 
ity from within will remove all the conditions of 
age that may exist in the outer personality, just 
as darkness is dispelled by the light; and will 
thereby restore natural youth to the physical body 
— something to which every physical form is en- 
titled as long as life continues in that form. The 
possibility of this law is extraordinary — in fact, 
limitless in its own field ; and the truth is, that any 
man, even though he might have the appearance 
of ninety, could regain the appearance of thirty- 
five if he would apply, in a thorough and effec- 
tive manner, the full power of this remarkable 
law. 

The Unfailing Truth. — Whatever we create 
in the within, the same will positively express it- 
self in the outer personality. And the creative 
energies within can create any condition or qual- 
ity we desire, provided they are properly directed 
by the marvelous power of imagination. 

Curative Power. — The fact is that the creative 
energies in your system can restore any part of 



58 HEALING YOURSELF 

your body to perfect health. The curative power 
of those energies is positively limitless. But they 
must be given the proper direction; and this 
imagination alone can do. Proceed by turning 
your attention to that .part of the body that is 
ailing. Then imagine that part of the body per- 
fectly well. Proceed farther, by trying to see and 
feel what you imagine ; that is, imagine that you 
see every fiber perfect and whole; and imagine 
that you feel perfectly well throughout that part 
of your system. Proceed still farther by concen- 
trating all the power of mind and soul upon what 
you now imagine in that part of your body. 
Focus attention absolutely upon what you now 
see and feel in that organ or muscle or nerve ; and 
the very thing you imagine, that you will create. 
You will create perfect health and a super- 
abundance of vital energy at the very point where 
your concentration is directed. These are the re- 
sults that you will positively secure; but your 
feeling must be deep; your concentration must 
be absolute; your imagination must be perfect; 
and you must be tremendously in earnest. 

Vitally Important. — Never use the power of 
imagination, at any time, for any other purpose 
than that of building for the true, the perfect and 
the ideal in yourself, in your life, in your world. 
Imagine always the higher, the greater, the won- 
derful, the sublime. Train your imagination to 



IMAGINE YOURSELF WELL 59 

look towards the heights and create the richness 
and the glory of the heights for every part of 
your world, here and now. 



CHAPTER IX 

THE REAL LIVING OF LIFE 

First Rale. — Learn to live more. All power 
comes from life. To increase power, physical or 
mental, we must increase life; and we increase 
life by constantly living more/ 

Second Rule. — Learn to give a more positive 
expression of life into every part of body, mind 
and soul. To live more we must express more life 
through every channel of consciousness ; and this 
expression must be positive and strong, and at 
the same time perfectly poised and deeply serene. 

Third Rule. — Learn to feel the real, interior 
action of life, at all times, and in every part of 
the system. To live more life we must feel more 
deeply the reality of life itself; that is, our con- 
scious feeling must penetrate into the very spirit 
of life so that we can actually realize ourselves 
in the limitless life-current. 

Important Fact. — We do not really live until 
we can feel the limitless life-current pulsating in 
every fiber and vein. We do not really live until 
we live in the very spirit of life ; and to live in the 

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spirit of life is to feel, through and through, the 
power of ceaseless, limitless, invincible life. 

Remember This. — All ailments, of whatever 
nature, can be traced to insufficient life. But it is 
impossible for any ailment to enter the system, 
under any circumstances, so long as there is an 
abundance of life. And to maintain an abund- 
ance of life, the law is, to constantly live more. 

Fourth Rule. — In order to live more, we must 
place ourselves in perfect harmony with the law 
of advancement. The soul was made to advance 
continuously — to move upward and onward eter- 
nally; and therefore we are not true to the soul 
unless we so live that this advancement of the 
soul may be promoted, in the fullest and most 
thorough manner, without any interruption what- 
ever. And to promote this continuous advance- 
ment of the soul we must enter, more and more 
perfectly, into the spirit of life — into the interior 
force of the great invincible life current. This 
current is forever moving forward into more life, 
into a larger life, into a higher life, into a greater 
and more powerful life; and we may move up- 
ward and onward with this current if we learn to 
live, more and more deeply, in the very spirit of 
real life. 

The Real Cause. — If we should undertake to 
trace any particular ailment back to its real cause, 
we would find that cause to be the advancement 



62 HEALING YOURSELF 

of life coming to a full stop. For the fact is, that 
whenever we come to a full stop in our advance- 
ment or growth, we lose hold upon the real life 
current; that is, we step aside from the life cur- 
rent, and, for the time being, are not filled with 
the life of that current. The result is that we 
fail to receive our full supply of life ; the life force 
within us is not replenished at the time, and our 
supply is not sufficient to carry on, in a perfect 
manner, the natural functions of existence. Ac- 
cordingly, conditions arise in the system that may 
lead to physical ailments, mental inefficiency, or 
adversity and wrong in general. To state it 
briefly, we cause our supply of life to diminish 
whenever we come to a stop in our growth or 
advancement, because whenever we make such a 
stop, we step aside from the life-current, and, 
therefore, are not receiving our supply of life at 
the time. And whenever we diminish our natural 
supply of life we make it impossible for mind 
and body to perform their functious perfectly. 
The consequences will be that ailments, wrongs 
and troubles of many kinds will follow. 

The Great Law. — Continue to advance in the 
within — in the soul — during every moment of ex- 
istence. Do not come to a stop at any time, or 
under any circumstance. The purpose of life 
is to move upward and onward eternally. Be 
true to that purpose, and you will ever receive 



THE REAL LIVING OF LIFE 63 

more and more life. Continue to live and move 
and have your being in the very spirit of the 
great life current; do not step aside for a mo- 
ment. Be in that current eternally, and you will 
always be filled, through and through, with all 
the life you can realize, appropriate and apply. 

Fifth Rule. — If you do not realize at once the 
existence of the life-current within you, proceed 
to imagine the interior existence of that current. 
Make this imagination so clear and so vivid that 
you can actually see that current moving upward 
and onward eternally, and with invincible force, 
through the entire domain of your soul. Then 
imagine that you are in that current, moving with 
that current into more and more of the one in- 
vincible, limitless life. Proceed more deeply into 
this realization, and imagine that you actually 
feel the full force of that life and that current in 
every fiber and vein. The result will be, that you 
will enter more and more deeply into the very 
spirit of limitless life. You will then be in the 
full force of limitless life ; and when you are in 
that life you will be so full of life that there will 
be no room, anywhere in your system, for dis- 
cord, ailments, weakness or wrong. You will 
have turned on the full light of life and power, 
and all darkness will have disappeared com- 
pletely. 

Deep Feeling. — Know the truth that there is 



64 HEALING YOURSELF 

within you the force and power of limitless life 
— that a great, invincible life-current is eternally 
passing through your soul, giving more and more 
life to every element in your soul. Know this 
great truth ; then proceed to feel, more and more 
deeply, the very spirit of this wonderful life-cur- 
rent. And the more deeply you feel this current, 
the more thoroughly you will enter into the full 
force and power of that current. You will con- 
stantly receive more and more life; you will live 
more and more every moment ; and to live more, 
that is the secret to complete emancipation. Give 
more life to every atom in your system, and your 
entire system will become pure, wholesome, vig- 
orous, powerful, virile and absolutely well. 

The True Life. — When we enter into the spirit 
of the full life and the real life within us, then 
indeed shall we begin to live the true life — the life 
that is ever becoming larger, richer, more perfect, 
more beautiful, more ideal. We shall not only 
gain health and freedom, but shall, as well, gain 
more and more of all that is worthy and desirable 
in human existence. But we must first gain pos- 
session of more life. We must first learn to live 
more, and forever more. We must first learn to 
live and move and have our being in the great 
life-current — the limitless life that is all within us 
and all about us everywhere. And to learn these 
things we must place ourselves in perfect har- 



THE REAL LIVING OF LIFE 65 

mony with that great law of the soul that is ever 
prompting all life to move upward and onward 
forever. We must live constantly in the spirit 
of this law so that we may enter, every moment, 
into the deeper life, the larger life, the richer life, 
the greater life, the more spiritual life. Our liv- 
ing must become real living; and in real living 
there is peace, there is power, there is purity, 
there is wholeness, there is freedom ; and there is 
perpetual increase of real life, and of all that is 
worthy and good in life. The great secret then 
is this, enter forever and ever into more life. 
Then all that is good must inevitably follow 
— and in a constantly increasing measure. 



CHAPTER X 

THE RIGHT USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 

First Principle. — In order that perfect health 
may be realized and maintained in the human sys- 
tem, it is absolutely necessary that complete and 
continuous harmony be established among the 
three great factors in the human entity — body, 
mind and soul ; and one of the first essentials to 
this end is the right use of these three factors in 
their respective fields of expression. The body 
must be used, under all circumstances, according 
to its true nature and real function; and the same 
is true with regard to the mind and soul ; but it is 
not possible for any one of these three factors 
to be used as it should unless all three are used as 
they should. For this reason our purpose must 
not be confined to the right use of the body, or 
of the mind, or of the soul, exclusive of the oth- 
ers ; but our purpose must be to find and continue 
the right use of all three in perfect harmony. 
There are many things that can be done to the end 
that this right use of body, mind and soul may be 
maintained; but the first essential is to inspire 

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USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 67 

every element and force in the system with a 
strong, continuous desire to bring about this right 
use at once, and to the most perfect degree. In 
other words, we should resolve, from this mo- 
ment on, to use the body, the mind and the soul 
according to their true nature; and we should 
make this resolution so strong that every part of 
body, mind and soul will feel the power of that 
resolution. The result will be that the entire sys- 
tem will respond more and more to what we have 
resolved to do, and in consequence we will de- 
velop within ourselves a second nature, so to 
speak, having a tendency to promote the right use 
of everything that exists within us. The law is, 
whatever you make up your mind to do that every 
power within you will help you to do; but your 
resolution must be strong and positive, and must 
continue to inspire every element within you all 
through life. 

Second Principle. — Every element and force in 
the human body should be placed in action, at 
least to a certain extent, every day; and there- 
fore, the great rule in physical culture is, to ex- 
ercise daily every muscle in the body. The value 
of this rule becomes more and more evident the 
more perfectly we realize the fact that life can 
find expression only through those physical fibers 
that are exercised or that are given a certain 
amount of action every day ; and in order to main- 



68 HEALING YOURSELF 

tain health all through the system, the life force 
should be expressed continually through every 
part of the system. When a muscle remains dor- 
mant or unused for some time, it is weakened, 
and, in addition, may harden or ossify, and 
thereby originate old age conditions. Perfect 
health, however, demands perpetual youth all 
through the body; that is, perpetual renewal of 
all the elements all through the body, and also the 
full expression of life, vitality and virility 
through every fiber and cell. One of the first 
things, therefore, to do in this connection is to 
adopt a simple system of physical exercise that 
will insure the placing of every muscle into ac- 
tion at least for a few moments every day. To 
outline such a system of exercise will not be nec- 
essary here, as anyone can, through the use of a 
number of well-known exercises, ascertain what 
is necessary to place every muscle in motion every 
day. But these exercises when applied should 
never be strenuous, nor should they be carried 
out in a mechanical manner. The rule should be, 
when taking physical exercise, to try to combine 
the mind with the exercise, and expect results 
mentally, with full faith and enthusiasm. In 
other words, train the mind to enter into the ex- 
ercise. You will thereby call into action the finer 
energies of the body as well as the purely physical 
energies; and this is exceedingly important, as a 



USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 69 

good, healthy body demands the full expression 
of all the forces of the personality, the finer nerve 
forces and vital forces, as well as the physical 
forces. 

Third Principle. — In the right use of the body 
it is absolutely necessary that the life force be 
expressed and exercised in every cell and fiber of 
the body. No cell can be in good health unless it 
is absolutely filled every day and continually with 
the life force; and to this end, we should aim to 
secure a stronger and more complete expression 
of the life force throughout the physical person- 
ality. To proceed, concentrate your mind for a 
few moments upon the different parts of the body, 
and arouse at the time a strong desire for the full 
expression of the life force in every fiber and cell. 
In addition, try to picture or imagine the full ex- 
pression of life in every part of your body, and 
enter into the exercise with the deepest depth of 
feeling that you can possibly realize at the time. 
This mode of concentration should be taken for 
a few moments several times every day; and if 
it is made strong, positive, deep and penetrating, 
the results will invariably be the increase of life 
and energy all through the physical system. 
Every cell will be made more active, every organ 
will perform its functions more perfectly, and 
there will be a decided increase in vitality, vital 
energy and working capacity. Besides this, a 



70 HEALING YOURSELF 

deeper realization of the life more abundant will 
be gained for the body; and we know full well, 
that the more life we feel in the body, the greater 
becomes the joy of living. This exercise, there- 
fore, will accomplish many things, and should be 
entered into with earnestness and enthusiasm. 

Fourth Principle. — The mind should be whole- 
some at all times and under all circumstances; 
and every form of wrong thinking should be elim- 
inated completely. We cannot use the mind 
rightly unless every state of mind is wholesome, 
harmonious and constructive; and therefore no 
adverse mental state must be permitted at any 
time. To cultivate a wholesome mind the first 
essential is to train the mind to entertain har- 
mony, purity, mental sunshine, positiveness, kind- 
ness, sympathy, loftiness of thought, aspiration, 
and the tendency to always look for the good and 
true and the beautiful in everybody and every- 
thing. The law is this, that it is practically im- 
possible for ailments of any kind to enter the 
body so long as the mind is thoroughly whole- 
some; and, therefore, the cultivation of a whole- 
some mind becomes one of the great essentials in 
the attainment of perfect health. 

Fifth Principle. — In the right use of the mind, 
it is necessary that we learn to think with the en- 
tire personality; that is, we should not simply 
think through the brain, but we should think 



USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 71 

through every nerve and fiber throughout the en- 
tire personal form ; in fact, every cell in the sys- 
tem should act as a channel for the expression of 
mental power. To accomplish this, try to think 
of the entire personality whenever you use the 
mind in any way, or whenever you entertain a 
wholesome or constructive state of mind. In 
other words, whenever you think, or whenever 
you enjoy, invariably think of the entire person- 
ality, so that the enjoyment and the thought may, 
to a certain extent at least, enter into the person- 
ality and find expression through various parts 
of the personal form. In addition, take special 
moments every day for the purpose of training 
the mind to use the whole of the personal form 
as a channel for thought; and the exercise may 
be as follows: Take any quality such as health, 
life, power, personal worth, ability, or any quality 
desired, and turn your attention upon that qual- 
ity with the deepest of interest. Then as you feel 
your mind entering into this quality with genuine 
interest, try to project the activity of the mind 
down through the personality ; that is, try to ex- 
tend mental action to every cell in your body. 
The mere effort to do this will produce results 
to a certain extent, and as the principle is prac- 
tised, you will find that the mind will, more and 
more, extend its activities to different parts of 
the personality. Later you will discover that you 



72 HEALING YOURSELF 

can actually feel the action of thought in every 
fiber in your system; and it is then that you are 
really beginning to build up for yourself a power- 
ful mind. No mind can become powerful so long 
as it uses the brain only; but when it begins to 
express itself through the entire brain, through 
all the nerve centers, through all the nerve fibers 
and through every physical cell in the system, as 
well as through every force in the personality, 
then the channels of expression for the mind will 
become so numerous and so extensive that all 
the latent forces and powers of the vast mental 
world will begin to come forth in greater and 
greater measure. The reason for this is evident, 
because when the mind can use the entire person- 
ality, the scope of mental action will increase 
to such an extent that the free and easy ex- 
pression of every mental force may be pro- 
moted thoroughly and completely. This prin- 
ciple, in addition to the remarkable increase of 
mental power, will also establish greater harmony 
between mind and body, which is extremely im- 
portant, because the mind cannot control the body 
so long as it finds expression only through the 
brain ; but when the mind begins to express itself 
through the entire personality, then every part 
of the body will become more responsive to men- 
tal action, so that the complete mastery of the 
body by the mind may be realized ; and the mind 



USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 73 

should exercise complete mastery over the body 
because in this way alone can the physical instru- 
ment be maintained in perfect condition under 
every circumstance. 

Sixth Principle. — The mind should aim to 
fashion all thought in the image and likeness of 
the ideal. We do not use the mind properly un- 
less we are always thinking towards the ideal; 
and the reason for this is found in the fact that 
we do not think the truth unless we are con- 
stantly aiming to enter into the realization of 
higher and greater truth; and to enter into the 
realization of higher and greater truth, we must 
think towards the ideal. The effect of this proc- 
ess upon health is readily discerned, because the 
mind will, when thinking towards the ideal, create 
more ideal and more perfect conditions in the 
mental world ; and every condition that is created 
in the mental world will, sooner or later, find ex- 
pression in the physical personality. The same 
practice of thinking towards the ideal will tend 
to perfect all the expressions of life through the 
mind or the body ; and this is most important be- 
cause it will tend to develop those finer states of 
life that are always wholesome and pure and in 
perfect harmony with the true order of the higher 
life within. To carry out this principle, we 
should select a number of the highest and best 
ideals that we can think of, and establish those 



74 HEALING YOURSELF 

ideals before the mental vision as clearly and dis- 
tinctly as possible. Then we should frequently 
turn attention upon those ideals, and at every op- 
portunity express a strong and intense desire for 
the mind to work up towards those ideals, or 
reach out for the higher realization of the truth 
and the life and the power that we know those 
ideals to possess. However, the application of 
this principle must be continued with faith, deter- 
mination and enthusiasm. We must develop a 
passionate love for the ideal, and the entire sys- 
tem must become so filled with intense desires for 
the ideal that every fiber and atom will respond 
to the force of those desires. No effort must be 
half-hearted; but every effort must be whole- 
hearted. And as we proceed with the whole 
heart, we shall soon succeed in renewing the mind 
upon a higher plane of thought and life, and 
thereby transform the entire personality in the 
image and likeness of those higher and finer 
things that we are realizing in our growing con- 
sciousness of the ideal. 

Seventh Principle. — The first essential in the 
right use of the soul is to think of the soul as the 
real you, as the real individuality, as the real self, 
and as the real and permanent master over every- 
thing in the human system. It is the soul alone 
that has the full light ; it is the soul alone that has 
the full power to lead and to guide; therefore 



USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 75 

nothing can be right in mind and body unless it 
is inspired by the soul. It is the soul alone that 
knows what should be done or what can be done ; 
therefore, the soul must occupy the throne. To 
apply this principle, we should train ourselves to 
think of the soul as the real self, and as the rul- 
ing power in everything we do; and we should 
also think of the soul as having the power to do 
everything right, and the wisdom to know what 
should be done at any time or under any circum- 
stance. In the application of this principle, we 
will find that our consciousness will gradually 
rise more and more into the realization of the soul 
life; and as this higher realization is gained, we 
will begin to live in the soul instead of in the body 
where we previously lived. But our living in the 
soul will not weaken the body. On the contrary, 
the more fully we live in the soul the more life 
and power we will express both in mind and body ; 
therefore, the result will be great gain in every 
possible manner. The law is this, that when we 
live in the higher, we become more able to pro- 
vide everything necessary for the lower ; and this 
is self-evident, because all life and power comes 
from the higher. When we learn to actually live 
in the soul we shall be able to gain possession of 
a far greater measure of life and power; and 
whatever we gain possession of in consciousness, 
that we invariably express throughout the per- 



76 HEALING YOURSELF 

sonality. In addition to other gains that will be 
realized in this manner, we will find that the en- 
tire personality will be refined and made superior. 
But we must remember that this refining process 
in the personality will not make us more suscep- 
tible to the ills of life. It is the contrary that is 
true, for the fact is that the more refined and 
spiritual the personality becomes, the more im- 
mune the personality becomes from all weakness, 
from all ills, or from any adverse condition what- 
ever. We shall find that the power of the spirit, 
when expressed in the body, can protect the body; 
and when this spiritual expression becomes 
strong, full and positive, the protection will be- 
come so complete that no ill can befall the per- 
sonal form henceforth. 

Eighth Principle. — The soul should be lived in 
every element and in every atom of the body. 
We should not simply be conscious of the soul, or 
conscious of the great truth that we are living in 
the soul; but we should live the life of the soul 
throughout our entire system ; and then make that 
living so full, so strong and so thorough that we 
can actually feel the soul life in every part of 
mind and body. The soul is always pure, whole- 
some, harmonious and powerful; therefore, the 
more perfectly the soul is lived in mind and body, 
the greater will be the purity, the wholeness, the 
harmony and the power that we will realize in 



USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 77 

every part of mind and body. Perfect health 
must follow because when the pure, the strong, 
the perfect, the wholesome is expressed in every 
atom, there will not be room for discord, disease, 
weakness, or any adverse condition whatever. 
To apply this principle, proceed by training your 
consciousness to realize as fully as possible the 
existence of the soul life; in other words, try to 
become more and more conscious of the soul. 
Then enter so deeply into this consciousness of 
the soul that you can actually feel the life and the 
power of the soul. This feeling will gradually 
find expression throughout your personality ; but 
you should increase this expression by creating a 
strong, positive desire for this expression, and 
by giving this desire added force and determina- 
tion under every available opportunity. In brief, 
learn to live in the soul, and learn to give the soul 
life to every fiber in your being. This will mean 
the coming forth into the presonality of that 
which is always well, always perfect, always 
wholesome, and always in peace, power and har- 
mony. 

Ninth Principle. — The conscious realization of 
the existence of body, mind and soul should be 
present to the fullest possible degree, in every 
thought, feeling and action ; that is, whatever we 
do, we should always recognize all those three 
factors as being indispensable factors in every 



78 HEALING YOURSELF 

expression of life. The practice of recognizing 
body, mind and soul in everything we do, and the 
practice of giving fuller expression to body, mind 
and soul in everything we do will tend, first, to 
produce a larger and a more perfect manifesta- 
tion of the elements, forces and powers that exist 
within us on all planes; and, second, to produce 
a more balanced and more harmonious state of 
relationship among these three great factors ; and 
in health as well as in all desirable attainments, 
it is highly important that body, mind and soul 
harmonize, and also that the largest and best 
from the spiritual, the mental and the physical, 
find the fullest and most perfect expression pos- 
sible. We should always make it a point to give 
soul to everything we do, and should always think 
of the soul as taking part in every action, whether 
of mind or body. We should always make it a 
point to combine mind and body in all life, in all 
enjoyment and in all functioning of the person- 
ality, whether physical or mental or both. 
Through this practice the three great factors — 
body, mind and soul — are trained more and more 
to work together in all the actions of life, and in 
all attainments and achievements we may have in 
view. And the greatest results must naturally 
follow where these three factors work together in 
harmony, and to the most perfect degree possible. 
Our aim should be to consider body, mind and 



USE OF BODY, MIND AND SOUL 79 

soul in everything that we carry forward into ex- 
pression, whether the plane of expression be 
physical, mental or spiritual. 

Tenth Principle. — The soul is always perfect, 
and can be used as it should in life only when 
constantly recognized as perfect. Under all cir- 
cumstances, therefore, we should think of the 
soul as being absolutely perfect in every form 
and manner. The mind grows more perfect as it 
grows more and more fully into the realization of 
the perfection of the soul. Therefore, we should 
encourage and prompt the mind to act more and 
more fully towards the perfection of the soul, 
because such action will invariably tend to de- 
velop the realization of perfection in every part 
of the mind. When the mind continues to ascend 
towards the marvelous, the wonderful and the su- 
blime in the soul, every part of the mind will, 
accordingly, take on more and more of all that is 
high and lofty and perfect in the soul. The body, 
with all its conditions and states of expression, 
is invariably the direct effect of the present devel- 
opment and conscious realization of the mind. 
Therefore, when the mind ascends into the reali- 
zation of the perfect, the complete, the higher and 
the better, the body will naturally respond, and 
will give expression to the higher and the better 
in all its functions and manifestations. In the 
attainment of health, we understand fully how 



80 HEALING YOURSELF 

the application of this principle must work won- 
ders. In the first place, we realize that the soul 
is well ; in the second place, the mind takes on the 
perfect health of the soul as the mind grows into 
the consciousness of the perfect health of the 
soul ; and in the third place, the body becomes like 
the mind, therefore grows in the expression and 
manifestation of perfect health, as the mind 
grows in the consciousness of that perfect health 
that always exists in the soul. The application of 
this principle should receive our best attention, 
and should be entered into with unbounded faith 
and enthusiasm. This will mean a wonderful 
change for the better, which will finally culminate 
in complete emancipation. 



CHAPTER XI 

THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 

Finer States of Mind. — Whenever the mind is 
in action certain forces are expressed, and if the 
mind is in a higher or finer state of action at the 
time, the forces expressed will be both finer and 
more powerful '; and we realize that the finer ener- 
gies of the mind have the power to exercise a far 
greater influence over the body, and, in fact, over 
the entire personality. Therefore, whenever we 
proceed to apply wholesome and constructive 
states of mind, we should try and make the ac- 
tions of the mind as high, as fine, and as deep as 
possible ; and one of the first essentials to this end 
is to become mentally serene — not only serene in 
a general sense, but become so perfectly still that 
you can actually feel the stillness, of life and soul 
throughout your system. When the mind is in 
that state, it invariably gives expression to very 
fine energies. Those energies invariably have the 
power to penetrate all conditions of the system, 
to eliminate every condition that is not in har- 

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82 HEALING YOURSELF 

mony with perfect peace, perfect health and the 
perfect expression of true being. 

There is a current belief that in order to change 
physical conditions, we must exercise a great deal 
of mental force ; but this is not true ; in fact, it is 
the reverse that is true. It is not a great deal of 
force that is necessary, but a deep, serene, highly 
refined state of mind, because such a state gives 
expression to those purer, more wholesome and 
more harmonious life currents that have the 
power to penetrate all through the system, heal- 
ing, purifying, building up, harmonizing and 
making things right in every form and manner. 
And we realize that if these highly refined life 
currents could continue in expression all through 
the system, every day, for some time, all adver- 
sity would finally be eliminated, no matter what 
the conditions might be. 

When we proceed to cultivate this conscious 
expression of the finer forces and the finer states 
of the mind, we build up a constructive process 
that will steadily take hold of the finer side of 
life, and will work through the interior currents, 
or the undercurrents, and gradually re-establish 
perfect health and perfect harmony throughout 
the deeper life of the system; and whenever the 
right is established in the deeper life of the sys- 
tem, the right will invariably manifest all through 
the external organs or form of the system. 



THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 83 

Whenever we gain this finer understanding of 
life, our first object should be to train ourselves 
to enter into this higher, more refined and more 
serene state of the mind, and try to feel that we 
are actually reposing in that beautiful state — the 
state of perfect harmony, peace and wholeness, 
and, in fact, resting there in the full realization 
of the great truth that we are, in real being, al- 
ways in perfect harmony and health. If we 
would continue in this state, we would find that 
we should not have to do anything else to regain 
perfect health, because that state of mind alone 
will gradually and steadily place in action all 
those higher and finer life currents — those life 
currents that invariably can and will restore or- 
der, harmony, health, wholeness and freedom to 
every part of mind and body. 

The Finer Energies of Thought and Feeling. — 
One of the great laws to be considered in this im- . 
portant study is this, that whenever we actually 
feel perfectly well, regardless of physical condi- 
tions, we will begin to manifest perfect health 
from that very hour. The reason for this is 
found in the fact that feeling always goes beneath 
conditions and manifestations; that is, it goes 
down to the very root, so to speak, of all expres- 
sions of life, so that whenever we feel well in this 
deep, interior sense, we place in action a health 
producing life force at the very root, or at the 



84 HEALING YOURSELF 

very beginning, of all expressions and manifesta- 
tions. The result, therefore, must be that all ex- 
pressions and manifestations will become the way 
we feel, that is, wholesome, healthful and har- 
monious. 

When we establish health, wholeness and 
harmony at the very beginning of all the mani- 
festations of life — in the interior state of con- 
sciousness, we will naturally manifest health all 
through the system ; and, therefore, we realize the 
immense importance of cultivating that deep, in- 
terior feeling of perfect health, that is, the power 
to feel well in the within at all times and under all 
circumstances. In this connection we must re- 
member that the way we feel inwardly, that is the 
way we become outwardly, provided, of course, 
that this interior feeling is thorough and contin- 
uous along the line of feeling that we have 
chosen. 

We all know that if we could feel young in this 
interior sense, and continually, instead of simply 
believing that we would like to be more youthful, 
the spirit of youth would be expressed all through 
the system, and we would gradually change the 
physical personality until it manifested the same 
condition of youth that we had continued to feel 
in the within. This is a law that cannot fail, and, 
therefore, we must not fail to apply it. It is true 
that the power to enter into this deep interior 



THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 85 

feeling, and feel the way we wish to feel, may in- 
volve much practice and concentrated action ; but 
it is an attainment that we all can reach. And 
knowing that we invariably become in the with- 
out as we feel in the within, we should proceed 
toward this attainment with the greatest enthu- 
siasm possible, and with the application of all the 
truth and information we have been able to gain 
on the subject. 

To establish this deep feeling, we shall gain 
largely by realizing continually the great fact 
that we all are in the within perfectly well ; that 
is, we should dwell on the great truth that the 
soul is always well; then we should proceed to 
enter into tUe feeling of that healfh and that 
wholeness that constitutes a permanent part of 
the soul life. When we know this truth, we know 
that our effort to feel perfectly well in the within 
is based upon a scientific principle, and that we 
are simply trying to feel what is absolutely and 
eternally true — that is, that we always are well 
in the within, and therefore we always should 
feel well in the within. 

The Subconscious Forces, — There is no field of 
consciousness in the human mind that is so vast, 
and that contains such a large number of the finer 
life currents as the subconscious field ; and, there- 
fore, we realize that every effort that we may 
make to awaken the larger subconscious life will 



86 HEALING YOURSELF 

invariably result in the expression of a larger 
measure of life, especially the finer and higher 
states of life. In dealing with the subconscious 
we are dealing with a large subject, too large for 
detailed analysis in this connection; but in order 
to secure the best results in the simplest manner, 
we should realize that the subconscious mind will 
invariably respond to our conscious directions, 
and that whatever direction we may make to the 
subconscious, with a view of awakening the 
higher and the finer life currents from within, 
will be followed by response from within, at least 
to some measure; and as we learn to apply the 
law through which the conscious mind directs the 
subconscious for greater action, we will find that 
the finer life currents from within will express 
themselves more and more until the outer person- 
ality becomes literally charged with life and 
power from within — life and power of a very 
high and fine order. Every effort we make, 
therefore, in this connection will result in great 
gain both for the realization of perfect health 
and for the realization of greater personal power. 
Spiritual Exaltation. — Among the many forces 
of life that may be found in the higher and finer 
states of consciousness, there are none that are 
finer or more powerful than those forces that 
are awakened and expressed when the mind en- 
ters what we may call spiritual exaltation; that 



THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 87 

is, when the mind is placed in an exalted state of 
consciousness. There are many experiences in 
the past as well as in the present, illustrating the 
fact that marvelous cures can be produced by 
what we term the exaltation of spirit. At certain 
times the mind is lifted and wonderfully exalted 
beyond material things, beyond anything in the 
objective — lifted up into another world, so to 
speak, where power is immense, where the light 
of truth is as brilliant as the shining sun, and 
where the consciousness of the perfect, the 
true and the absolute becomes an actual realiza- 
tion. 

We know that faith invariably has a tendency 
to exalt the mind; and there are many lines of 
thought, such as worship in all its phases, that 
have the same tendency to lift the mind into the 
spirit. Besides this, there are many other tend- 
encies that may come in daily life that tend to ex- 
alt the mind; and we shall find it profitable to 
employ any or all means that may have this tend- 
ncy, although we can produce this remarkable 
e :altation in ourselves by turning our attention to 
the highest and purest state of spiritual being that 
W(i can imagine — then with all the power of life 
and mind and thought and soul, desire to realize 
the high spiritual state upon which attention has 
been directed. 

When we proceed in this attitude, we will 



88 HEALING YOURSELF 

gradually turn all the energies of life up- 
ward, and those energies will begin to work to- 
ward the higher, rising continually in the scale 
of consciousness and lifting the entire mind up- 
ward into higher and finer states of being, until 
the state of glorious exaltation is realized. In 
many instances this exalted state is reached in a 
few moments of such consecrated effort; but 
under any circumstance, we can, through such 
consecrated effort, steadily and surely lift the 
mind more and more until the exalted state is 
realized absolutely ; and when we do enter the ex- 
alted state, every adverse condition of the body 
disappears instantaneously. The reason why is 
this, that when consciousness is exalted, it enters 
into a world of pure spirit and marvelous power 
— a power that is perfect, whole, clean, healthful 
and thoroughly good in every way — a power that 
has the power to fill the entire being of man 
through and through and give expression to the 
pure, the wholesome, the harmonious and the per- 
fect in every part of mind or personality. 

In this connection we should also remember the 
great law that whatever we become conscious of, 
that we invariably manifest in mind and body; 
and, therefore, since we become conscious of this 
marvelous power when we enter spiritual exalta- 
tion, we invariably do, according to the law, give 
expression to that power, and that power acts as 



THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 89 

a consuming fire, purifying the entire system and 
making every part of the system absolutely pure 
and whole. In brief, the power that we become 
conscious of through spiritual exaltation will ex- 
press itself all through mind and body, pouring 
through the system like a powerful life current, 
or like a powerful refining current, removing all 
adversity and discord before it, and restoring 
absolute harmony and perfection to every part 
of the human entity. 

Remarkable Possibilities. — If people who have 
distressing ailments and who have tried so many 
things without results, would proceed at once to 
train their minds to enter more and more into 
this state of exaltation, they would not continue 
very long in their present adverse condition. To 
proceed, they should turn attention upon the high- 
est and finest state of being that can be realized 
and imagined, and then with the whole of life, 
that is, a yearning that is irresistible, and a de- 
sire that thrills every atom, try to realize this 
wonderful state of spiritual exaltation. If they 
would continue in this way faithfully, day after 
day, and week after week, if necessary, they 
would finally lift the mind out of the bondage in 
which they have been living, or would gradually 
rise more and more into the higher and finer, 
until some glorious day they would find them- 
selves in the exalted state; and when this expe- 



90 HEALING YOURSELF 

rience was realized, a marvelous change would 
come speedily. 

Here we must remember that it is impossible 
for any ailment to continue in the body after the 
mind has been exalted in the spirit, because when- 
ever that exaltation is realized, the entire system 
is literally flooded with new life, with new and 
highly refined forces, with new and wholesome 
states of being, with new and harmonious states 
of consciousness, with new and powerful states 
of mind; and in brief, complete renewal of the 
entire system is brought about, because the 
higher and finer powers from above have come 
down into the physical being, changing every- 
thing and bringing about a new order absolutely. 
The possibilities, therefore, that are within easy 
reach of everybody, in connection with what we 
term spiritual exaltation, are remarkable, indeed ; 
and among all great means of healing there is no 
method that is more remarkable or more power- 
ful than that of spiritual exaltation. It invari- 
ably means the absolute changing of everything, 
the lifting of life into the higher and the finer 
and the perfect, and the restoration of that per- 
fect state of being that we know to be our inherit- 
ance from life — that perfect state of being that 
invariably finds expression all through the sys- 
tem when the power of the spirit is given full 
freedom in mind and body. 



THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 91 

The Spiritualising Process. — What we may 
term the spiritualizing process constitutes one of 
the most direct and one of the most effective 
means of cure that is known ; and it consists, first, 
in realizing the power and the presence of the 
spirit in the system; and, second, in taking hold 
of the power consciously, and directing it wher- 
ever healing is desired. To illustrate, there may 
be a condition in your system that you wish to 
change, and your object will be to spiritualize that 
part of the body ; or you will want that part of the 
body to undergo spiritualization, and you wish to 
apply the spiritualization process to that organ or 
function or part, whatever it may be. You pro- 
ceed in this manner. You first realize the fact 
that you have conscious possession of certain 
spiritual forces — forces that are serene, har- 
monious, highly refined — pure white energies 
with healing on their wings. You realize that 
you have full conscious possession of those forces 
in your own being. You realize that you can di- 
rect them as you may desire, and cause those 
forces to act in any part of the body as you will. 
Thus you turn your attention to that part of the 
body that needs attention, and while concentrat- 
ing there positively and with deep, calm feeling, 
you think that you are directing those spiritual 
forces all the way through that part of the body, 
causing those forces to move to and fro in that 



92 HEALING YOURSELF 

part of the body, literally penetrating every fiber 
and nerve, and entering into every atom, spirit- 
ualizing every element through and through in 
that part of the system. Briefly, that part of the 
body is being spiritualized by the moving to and 
fro of those fine, powerful life currents — cur- 
rents that are purely spiritual and that invariably 
work for purity, harmony, health, wholeness and 
perfection of being. 

Through this method you are not only estab- 
lishing a spiritual process in that part of the body, 
but you are also giving expression to the higher 
and finer life currents that invariably find ex- 
pression wherever the power of the spirit is di- 
rected. The result will be that you can almost see 
those finer spiritual forces with the eye of the 
spirit, gently but positively moving all through 
the atoms, elements, veins and fibers of your sys- 
tem, penetrating them all in this beautiful man- 
ner, giving powerful expression to this gentle, 
peaceful, harmonizing process. We repeat, you 
can almost see this wonderful, spiritual process 
taking place ; and as you continue you will begin 
to feel that physical conditions are gradually los- 
ing their hold or dwindling away, or changing, or 
modifying, according to the powerful expressions 
of this deep, fine and health-producing force of 
the spirit. The undercurrents and the inner life, 
including the chemical actions of the body, are 



THE FINER CURATIVE FORCES 93 

being acted upon, and are being influenced to 
change so as to harmonize perfectly with the true 
order of things. A greater power is in their pres- 
ence, and therefore the lesser powers of the body 
will obey perfectly, and proceed at once to resume 
a state of order, harmony and health. 

We realize that it is a very fine art to take hold 
of these wonderful spiritual life currents, direct 
them through consciousness, through the finer 
and more serene control of the will, and thus 
cause those higher forces to pass through and 
spiritualize any part of the body. And we should 
repeat frequently, until those finer forces, those 
pure white spiritual energies, gain complete mas- 
tery of the situation. For here we must remem- 
ber that those spiritual forces always work for 
the good and the right and the true; and when 
they do secure mastery of the situation in any 
part of the body, the good and the right and the 
true will prevail in that part of the body. Eman- 
cipation will have been secured; health, life and 
power will have been restored, and all will be well 
again. 

To train the mind to apply this process, we 
must develop a deep, serene state of mind, and try 
to enter more and more deeply into that perfect 
faith and perfect realization of the spirit wherein 
we absolutely know that we are in conscious touch 
with the powers of the spirit. Then we realize 



94 HEALING YOURSELF 

that we can direct those finer life currents and 
express them anywhere, just as readily as we can 
move the hand physically, or direct any part of 
the body; and wherever we may direct those 
highly refined spiritual forces, there those forces 
will proceed to act in a strong, positive and yet 
serene manner, always refining, always harmon- 
izing, always healing, always restoring perfect 
order. They will spiritualize and make perfect; 
and wherever conditions are made perfect or 
spiritualized in any part of the human system, all 
ailments and all discord must instantaneously 
disappear. Results, however, will depend very 
largely upon our realization of the great truth 
that whenever we apply the spiritual process we 
are giving expression to higher power. We must 
be able to say to the body, "The greater is at 
hand." Then all physical conditions must obey 
absolutely and resume that higher, finer and more 
perfect state of being that is invariably produced 
by the presence and the power of the greater. 
We must also remember that there are no ob- 
stacles in the physical world to that power. That 
power can overcome any and every obstacle ; and 
it always works for health, for peace, for har- 
mony, and for the life more abundant. 



CHAPTER XII 

LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 

The Absolute State of Being. — When we speak 
of the absolute we have reference to that state 
of being that is changeless because it contains 
everything that life can hold ; that is, everything 
that really is in life. The absolute is limitless 
and perfect in the extreme sense of those terms ; 
and when we speak of the absolute, we refer to 
that state of perfection that has reached the cli- 
max, or where all perfecting processes have com- 
pleted their work. However, we cannot conceive 
of any process as ever coming to an end, and yet 
there is one thing that we realize no matter how 
we may approach the subject, and that is, that 
everything that is to be perfected must first con- 
tain the possibility of perfection within itself. 

We say that the soul will continue for all time 
to rise in the scale, ever becoming more perfect, 
meaning that the soul will continue to give ex- 
pression to a larger and a larger measure of its 
own inherent life or divinity, its own inherent 
qualities and powers, all of which must be abso- 

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lute — containing within themselves all that any- 
quality can contain ; in brief, we say that the soul 
in its growth and development continues to give 
expression to more and more of that which is in- 
herent in the soul. But if the soul can continue 
to give expression to more and more of its in- 
herent qualities, or its real spiritual life, and con- 
tinue thus for an endless period of time, we must 
come to the conclusion that the soul already has 
within itself everything that can be expressed 
through an endless period of advancement and 
ascension. 

The soul must necessarily have within itself 
absolute perfection if it can continue for all time 
to express more and more perfection; and we 
know that if the soul did not have within itself 
absolute perfection, it would in its development 
come to an end some time. However, if the soul 
never comes to an end in its process of develop- 
ment, but continues to rise in the scale for eter- 
nity, it must necessarily possess within itself at 
the present time the absolute state of being ; and 
here let us remember that the absolute is without 
conditions, without limitations, and is not cir- 
cumscribed in any way, but contains everything 
in the perfect, limitless state of real being. 

The Unconditioned. — When we consider the 
absolute, we realize that we shall have to think 
quietly and deeply, because it is something that 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 97 

cannot be discerned unless we enter into the very 
spirit of Divine Wisdom; but we cannot enter 
into that spirit unless we are absolutely serene 
and the whole of life consecrated to the very 
highest we can think or know. When we enter 
into this deeper and more serene state of contem- 
plation, we begin to understand what it means to 
live in the absolute. 

As we approach that state, let us imagine an 
absolute state of being where the mind would be 
conscious of a perfection that could not be made 
more perfect, where the mind would be conscious 
of a life that was so beautiful that it could not be 
made more beautiful and where the mind was 
conscious of power and wisdom of all the quali- 
ties of the Divine — all that Divine Being could 
imply. In approaching such a state of conscious- 
ness, the first great truth that we would discover 
would be that there are no conditions in the abso- 
lute state, and there is nothing in that state that is 
undeveloped; in truth, in the absolute state all 
things are as they can be in the most extreme or 
highest form of being; but this is something that 
cannot be described in words. We can realize this 
only as we develop spiritual consciousness. 

In contrast to this higher consciousness we find 
when we look upon our physical bodies, that the 
manifested side of life is full of changing condi- 
tions ; and when we look upon the mind we find 



98 HEALING YOURSELF 

that there are degrees of manifestation and un- 
derstanding ; in brief, there are certain states that 
are constantly improving or in a process of per- 
petual growth. This is true of the entire person- 
ality, and is a part of the great plan ; but in the 
absolute state there are no changes, no condi- 
tions, no growth, no advancement, because every- 
thing in the absolute state has reached the All in 
All. 

Contains Everything. — When we consider this 
wonderful theme very closely, we find that, al- 
though the absolute state contains within itself 
everything that we can conceive of as existing in 
perfect being, still we must make a distinction 
between being perfect in the absolute, and mani- 
festing perfection in the outer life; and in this 
connection there are three views that we can take 
of the subject. The first view would be simply 
to consider the external side of life in a process of 
growth, and try, in the best manner we know, to 
improve upon that process continually through 
life. We would do this, however, without any 
regard to what we might possess in the within; 
but in trying to grow or express ourselves with- 
out drawing upon the within, we would not ac- 
complish very much. The reason for this is evi- 
dent, because if we cannot secure the greater sup- 
ply, we will necessarily continue in the same state 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 99 

of development all along until the greater supply 
is secured, which could only follow after we had 
placed ourselves in contact with the absolute life 
within. 

We might take a second view, which would be 
to give no attention to external growth whatever, 
but simply live in the belief that we were perfect 
now, and, therefore, need give no further thought 
to external changes. In taking this view, our ob- 
ject would be to enter as deeply as possible into 
the consciousness of divine life, or realize the ab- 
solute state; and seemingly this would be the 
proper course to pursue ; but there is another side 
to this great theme. The truth is that the mere 
act of becoming conscious of perfect being is not 
all there is in life. We must also consider mani- 
festation. The fact that we are growing and con- 
stantly manifesting more and more in life proves 
that there is a purpose in such manifestation ; and 
we know that the principle of that manifestation 
is this, that we do not really live, or cannot really 
live, without giving expression to more and more 
life. The giving of expression to more life in- 
volves the giving of expression to everything that 
pertains to life or that comes from life — all the 
powers, qualities and talents that exist in the 
human entity. Here we must also remember that 
it is not possible to manifest perfect being by 



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simply working for the consciousness of perfect 
being. There are other essentials as we shall un- 
derstand as we proceed. 

The Higher Understanding. — Realizing then 
the great truth that growth, manifestation and 
expression are necessary factors in real living, 
we come to a third view of this subject; and that 
is, that our object in trying to live in the absolute 
should be for the purpose of manifesting a 
greater and a greater measure of the life of abso- 
lute being. Our purpose must not be to hide our- 
selves in absolute consciousness, or try to with- 
draw from manifested life, or in any way enter 
into that state of abstraction where we become 
more or less unconscious of things in the external. 
This must not be our object, although we know 
that it is possible at certain times to enter so com- 
pletely into the abstract that we become in a 
measure oblivious to conditions. We find, how- 
ever, that this state of obliviousness to conditions 
generally means that we have become insensible 
to them, and not that we have necessarily over- 
come them. However, while we are in that state 
we feel absolutely free from conditions; and a 
great many advanced minds have taken the view 
that real freedom can come only as we confine 
consciousness more and more to this abstract 
state where we become oblivious to the sensibili- 
ties of external life. But this is not the truth. 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 101 

We know that, although we may live for a 
time in abstract consciousness, and in a measure 
realize freedom from pain and illness, still growth 
and manifestation will be taking place as usual in 
our external life. The body will continue its 
changes and the mind will continue to seek new 
forms of expression; natural processes will go 
on in the personality as before, and we shall soon 
find that the personality will require further at- 
tention. The fact is, we may isolate ourselves 
from personal conditions for a time, and it may 
be a delightful experience ; and during that time, 
the personality may continue to run like a clock 
that has been wound up; but sooner or later the 
clock will run down, and the personality shall 
have to receive attention. In other words, the 
ego will be drawn out suddenly into manifested 
life to take care of its instrument. In the mean- 
time, there may have been considerable loss sus- 
tained in the process of growth and development ; 
and after all we shall find that there has been no 
real gain. 

Dwelling in the Abstract. — There are many il- 
lustrations in history of this practice of the ego 
hiding itself, so to speak, in the abstract, and 
neglecting the personality ; but in every instance, 
the personality either weakened or met with dis- 
solution, so that there was no gain and much loss 
on the manifested side. True, there are advanced 



102 HEALING YOURSELF 

minds who argue that the personality is of no 
value in any case, and it matters not what hap- 
pens to it so long as the soul finds absolute truth. 
But, whatever our view may be of that subject, 
we must come to the conclusion that the fact that 
we are here in this sphere of existence, in the pos- 
session of a personality, proves that our being 
here is for a purpose ; and also that we have re- 
ceived this personality in order that we may use 
it as an instrument in fulfilling our purpose in 
this realm of existence. There may be times 
when it is well to enter the abstract for a short 
period, and thereby withdraw consciousness from 
the world of sense, but in most instances this is 
neither necessary nor desirable. It is not the 
highest light on this great subject; and it is the 
highest light that we all seek. 

The Great Problem. — Considering the more 
rational view of this subject, that is, that the per- 
sonality is necessary as an instrument of the soul, 
serving a great purpose, and that we should enter 
more and more into the consciousness of the ab- 
solute in order that we may further manifestation 
and growth in the personality, we are face to face 
with the great problem of adjusting ourselves 
to these two great phases of the truth. When we 
consider the external side, we find it undeveloped, 
and when we consider the spiritual side or the 
real I Am, we find that it is absolutely perfect, 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 103 

in need of neither growth nor further develop- 
ment. But we shall find the solution of this prob- 
lem as we realize that growth in the personality 
depends more and more upon the deepening of 
consciousness in the absolute; and also that real 
living will increase or perfect itself only as we 
cause the perfect being in the I Am to manifest 
itself more and more in the outer life. You may 
enter into consciousness of the absolute, and you 
may discern that absolute being is changeless, 
perfect, beyond further growth, and yet the mo- 
ment you become conscious of the absolute state 
you will realize that this state inherently demands 
continuous manifestation. In other words, the 
deeper you enter the absolute state, the greater 
becomes your desire to manifest more and more 
of the absolute in and through your external be- 
ing. 

Wonderful Truth. — The statement has been 
made that even though the Infinite is perfect, still 
the Infinite cannot be satisfied unless divine ex- 
pression through the great family of human souls 
is made constant ; and whatever we may think of 
this statement, it is most delightful to believe. It 
leads to the conclusion that we are just as neces- 
sary to the Infinite as the Infinite is to us. In- 
finite life, therefore, although inherently perfect, 
beyond all limitations, is not complete in its con- 
sciousness of life unless that life is manifested 



104 HEALING YOURSELF 

more and more through the countless souls of the 
cosmos. The more we think of this, the more 
reasonable it becomes, the more desirable it be- 
comes and the more beautiful it becomes ; and we 
find in the realization of this truth the very se- 
cret of secrets concerning the nearness between 
God and man. 

The truth is that if we are just as necessary 
to God as God is to us, we have therein the real 
principle and the real need of divine unity. We 
all must admit that it is inconceivable to think of 
the family of human souls as being one with God 
if neither were necessary to the other; but the 
fact that they are all necessary to each other gives 
an eternal reason for endless unity between the 
Infinite and every soul in existence. The same 
idea is applicable to the individual I Am and the 
manifested life of the personality. Our conclu- 
sion here must be that although the individual 
I Am is perfect in being, living in the absolute, 
still manifestation through the personality is ab- 
solutely necessary to the conscious existence of 
the I Am. 

The I Am cannot live consciously without giv- 
ing expression to life; and the giving of expres- 
sion to life demands an instrument through which 
that expression can take place. If there were no 
manifestation the I Am would simply exist in a 
state of unconscious abstraction, and we can con- 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 105 

ceive of no reason why the I Am should exist at 
all if its existence simply meant eternal sleep in 
the absolute. We must have a reason for things ; 
things must explain their existence or state of 
being in a satisfactory manner ; and if anything 
exists at all there must be some cause for that 
existence. However, we can find no cause for 
an existence that would mean nothing more than 
isolation in an abstract state, or eternal sleep. 
We must accept, therefore, the other view, or 
rather the higher understanding of this great 
theme. 

Absolute Consciousness. — When we take this 
other or higher view of absolute consciousness, 
and proceed to penetrate deeper and deeper into 
the marvelous state of absolute being, becoming 
conscious of more and more of the absolute in or- 
der that we may manifest the greater life of the 
absolute, thus expanding the mind, perfecting the 
personality and enlarging the life of the soul, we 
find not only a reasonable cause for all existence 
and all experience, but we discover before us a 
wonderful path— a path of endless existence and 
ascension too marvelous to even imagine. Be- 
ginning with this higher view of life, that is, that 
we grow and develop in the manifested life as 
we gain a deeper and a deeper consciousness of 
perfect being, we meet the great law that what- 
ever we become conscious of, that we invariably 



106 HEALING YOURSELF 

express. Our purpose, therefore, must be to be- 
come conscious of a larger and a larger measure 
of the limitless life and the perfect life that al- 
ready exists inherently in absolute being. And 
the more we become conscious of, the more we 
will manifest in the without, thereby making ex- 
istence upon all planes richer, more wonderful 
and more ideal at every step of the endless way. 
Health and Emancipation. — The problem in 
this connection is how to apply this principle to 
the attainment of health and emancipation. We 
know that in absolute being there can be no sick- 
ness or weakness or discord of any kind. There 
can be no such conditions, or any condition what- 
ever in absolute consciousness; and the more 
deeply we penetrate absolute consciousness, the 
further we get away from all forms of conditions 
or limitations. The question then is, how we 
may, through the gaining of absolute conscious- 
ness, secure emancipation from adverse condi- 
tions. In this connection we must consider the 
great fact that whenever we become unconscious 
of weakness or sickness or discord those condi- 
tions disappear entirely from the personality. 
We will suppose that you have a pain in your 
body, and that you wish to become unconscious of 
that pain. But here let us remember that there is 
a difference between becoming unconscious of a 
pain and insensible to a pain, because we become 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 107 

insensible to a pain only when our nerves are 
deadened. Here, then, we find a marked differ- 
ence. However, when we become unconscious of 
a pain, we do so by withdrawing consciousness 
from the field of action of that pain ; and the fact 
is that those forces in your system that were pro- 
ducing the pain cannot act in that manner unless 
you continue to be conscious of the pain. You 
must be conscious of the pain in order that those 
forces can produce that pain, and when you cease 
to be conscious of that pain the forces in that part 
of the system can produce pain no longer. This 
may seem strange, but it is a strictly scientific 
fact. It is absolutely true to natural law, be- 
cause mind and body are so closely related that 
the mind must give its consent to a process before 
that process can begin or continue anywhere in 
the physical system. 

We will suppose again that there is discord in 
your system, and that it began through the vio- 
lation of some law ; you at once become conscious 
of that discord, and immediately your conscious- 
ness admits the existence of discord in that place 
— the existence of certain activities that can pro- 
duce pain. Your consciousness continues to give 
its consent to those activities continuing in that 
mode of action that will sooner or later produce 
pain; and when the pain comes, consciousness 
immediately admits the existence of that pain, 



108 HEALING YOURSELF 

thereby giving those activities permission to con- 
tinue in the producing of more pain. However, 
the very moment consciousness would refuse to 
grant further permission to those activities, and 
withdraw its presence from that part of the body, 
those activities would cease, and they would no 
longer produce pain. The fact is that whenever 
you withdraw consciousness from any field of 
activity in your physical system, those activities 
will subside or cease altogether; and there- 
fore what those activities produced previously 
will not be produced any more; that is, the pain 
will cease to be, and nature will resume normal 
conditions. This is a law that we can reason out 
and prove for ourselves very readily, and we will 
soon be able to understand how no form of action 
can continue anywhere in the system unless we 
are conscious of it — unless consciousness is there 
permitting those conditions to continue. 

The Great Secret. — The problem is to with- 
draw consciousness from any state of activity 
that we do not care to encourage; and there is 
where we find the consciousness of the absolute 
life to be indispensable. We know that we can- 
not cease the consciousness of the lesser until we 
gain consciousness of the greater; in other 
words, we cannot withdraw consciousness from 
a state of discord unless we can direct conscious- 
ness upon the opposite state — a state of harmony. 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE 109 

And we can withdraw consciousness from any- 
place only when we are able to direct conscious- 
ness to that which is the very reverse. In the 
personal life, however, we find a bundle of con- 
ditions, the very reverse of the absolute state. 
Therefore, if we wish to withdraw consciousness 
from those conditions, we must consecrate con- 
sciousness to the absolute state; that is, we must 
continue to approach the absolute so as to become 
more and more conscious of the absolute. 

Understanding the Absolute. — To understand 
what it means to be in the absolute state, or even 
to imagine the existence of such a state, we shall 
find it necessary to give much thought to the very 
highest states of consciousness ; and, although we 
may not always be able to form a perfect concep- 
tion of the absolute state of perfect being, still 
we can form mental conceptions that are so simi- 
lar to that state that they will give us, for the 
time being, an indication to how and where we 
should turn attention. And here we should re- 
member that although we may become conscious 
of perfect being, that does not mean that we have 
become conscious of all there is in perfect being. 
Such a consciousness would require an eternity; 
but we can become conscious of perfect being; 
we can draw so near to the absolute state that we 
can form a clear conception of the life of the 
absolute. However, we can never become con- 



no HEALING YOURSELF 

scious of all that is in the absolute, because again, 
that would require an eternity. It is true that 
all who are spiritually awakened are conscious 
more or less of the absolute, and there are times 
when they can draw so near to perfect being that 
they can really feel that they are in reality the 
I AM. And here you should remember that 
whenever you can feel that you and the I AM 
are one and the same, then you are in absolute 
consciousness. However, you may continue to 
penetrate more and more deeply into that state 
for eternity, and the more deeply you penetrate 
into that state the larger the I AM becomes in 
your conscious understanding. 

Art of Overcoming. — Resuming our consid- 
eration of the possibility of withdrawing con- 
sciousness from conditions by entering more and 
more deeply into absolute consciousness, we shall 
find that this practice will prove of exceptional 
value in daily life. The illustration given with 
regard to pain will hold elsewhere; and, in fact, 
there are a number of illustrations that could 
be mentioned. We will suppose further that 
there is a chronic ailment in your system ; and if 
you know that the forces of nature are perpetu- 
ating that ailment simply because your own con- 
sciousness gives consent, you realize that you can 
overcome that condition and find emancipation 
by ceasing to give conscious consent to the 



LIVING IN THE ABSOLUTE in 

perpetuation of that ailment. Here we find the 
chief secret of those who deny the existence of 
disease. They continue their denial until con- 
sciousness becomes more or less oblivious, both 
to the disease and to that part of the body. But 
it is not necessary to deny the existence of dis- 
ease, although the method is more or less effec- 
tive as it helps consciousness to get away from 
that form of confused activity, the fact being 
that when consciousness withdraws from any 
place in the system, it will no longer give cause 
to the discord or the disease that may be in action 
in that place; that is, the forces of nature can 
no longer proceed as before to reproduce that 
particular ailment. However, it is not necessary 
to deny the existence of disease in order to with- 
draw consciousness from the field of discordant 
activity. We shall find that the other method is 
far more effective; that is, the method of with- 
drawing consciousness from the world of condi- 
tions by consecrating consciousness upon the ab- 
solute. You realize, therefore, that if there is 
an ailment in your system you may secure eman- 
cipation from that ailment and overcome it and 
become unconscious of those activities by becom- 
ing more fully conscious of the absolute, which is 
unconditioned, and wherein all things are abso- 
lutely perfect, containing the All in All. 

Image the True. — We shall find it an excellent 



ii2 HEALING YOURSELF 

practice to try to imagine the reality of the abso- 
lute state, and try to imagine that it is a state 
wherein there are no conditions — a state that in- 
volves the complete, the perfect, the All that is in 
Divine Being ; and when we imagine such a state 
and try to direct consciousness upon that state, 
or try to combine our own present consciousness 
with the consciousness of that state, we shall find 
that in every instance our present consciousness 
will enter so deeply into the unconditioned state 
of the absolute that we become unconscious of 
conditions in the without. Thus consciousness 
will withdraw from the world of discord and 
confusion, and will no longer take part in the 
producing of ailment or pain; and here let us 
remember that when our own consciousness no 
longer takes part in the producing of ailment or 
pain, it is impossible for ailments or pain to con- 
tinue another moment in mind or body. This in- 
deed is a great truth, a most wonderful truth, 
and the more deeply conscious we become of the 
vastness and possibility of this truth, the sooner 
we shall realize complete emancipation, absolute 
health and all those higher and more beautiful 
states of being that we know we can find in the 
consciousness of the ideal. Our purpose, there- 
fore, must be to enter more and more perfectly 
into the consciousness of the ideal, which is, in 
truth, the consciousness of absolute being — in 



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absolute being every ideal is real; and when we 
have entered that state where we know and feel 
that every ideal is real, then indeed are we living 
in the spirit of the absolute — in the pure, white 
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